My neighborhood Facebook post got deleted for mentioning a library book ban

I live in a small town in Ohio and last week I posted about how our local school board quietly removed three books from the high school library without any public discussion. The post got flagged within an hour and Facebook said it violated community standards on 'controversial topics.' Has anyone else had their local library or school censorship discussions scrubbed from social media?

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shanewells1mo ago

Yeah that "misinformation" tag is something I've been seeing more and more on stuff that's just... actual local news. I mean there's this weird thing happening where platforms are so scared of getting blamed for spreading stuff that they just nuke anything that even smells like a debate now. It's like they've decided the safest move is to pretend these conversations don't exist at all, which honestly feels worse than letting people argue it out in public. Maybe it's just me but it feels like we're trading one kind of censorship for another and nobody's really asking if that's what we wanted.

kai_bennett1mo ago

My neighbor down the street posted about the exact same thing in our town and her post lasted maybe two hours before it vanished. She tried to repost it with the book titles blacked out and Facebook still took it down saying it was 'misinformation.' She finally gave up and just started a group chat with other parents instead.