Facebook Backtracks After ‘Permanently Disabling’ Conservative Ad Account
By Movieguide® Staff
Facebook, which Meta now owns, recently reversed a previous decision to “permanently” disable the account of the conservative children’s book publisher, Heroes of Liberty.
Facebook claimed that the publisher violated its community guidelines after releasing books on conservatives such as Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett, former President Ronald Reagan, and author Thomas Sowell.
“This ad account, its ads and some of its advertising assets are disabled because it didn’t comply with our policy on Low Quality or Disruptive Content,” Facebook said in a message disabling the account on Dec. 23, according to FOX Business.
However, Facebook called their decision an “error,” and the account has since been restored.
“I wanted to let you know that the ads account was disabled in error and has been restored,” Drew Pusateri, a spokesperson for Meta, told FOX Business.
“They proactively reached out to several members of Congress and told *them* it was a mistake and we’re back online. Those offices told us,” Heroes of Liberty editor and board member Bethany Mandel confirmed the same day. “They didn’t reach out to us.”
“We got into books because we couldn’t find the books that raised us,” the publishing company’s website reads. “Entertaining, engaging, story-driven, visually stunning, and not less critical of love and admiration to the American values which made this country great. After a long creative journey, we successfully recreated the children’s books to bring back magic, joy, and laughter to your child’s bedtime.”
The company opened its store on Nov. 9, and used the ads account that Facebook disabled to sell and promote their stories.
“We are not in politics, we are in the business of creating beautiful stories about great people that will entertain children and give them life lessons,” Mandel said. “To cancel children’s books because they celebrate American values that 90% of Americans believe in isn’t even anti-conservative bias, it’s anti-American. Pure madness.”
Mandel said that she believes they disabled the account due to pressure from a minority of disgruntled users.
“There was a small but noisy group of responders to our ads who didn’t like the fact we published books about Ronald Reagan, Thomas Sowell and Amy Coney Barrett; people we called Heroes of Liberty,” she told FOX Business. “They made nasty comments, especially about Reagan, and about us for publishing these books and even shared their desire to burn them.”
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