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Facebook removes ‘Convoy to DC’ web page of truckers protesting towards vaccine mandates

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Facebook, on Wednesday, has eliminated a web page ‘Convoy to DC’ of truck drivers opposing vaccine guidelines within the USA. The truckers have slammed this step of Facebook as censorship at its best. The truck drivers’ “Freedom Convoy” was deliberate from California to Washington DC. This was being finished after being impressed by the Canadian truckers who had not too long ago taken their convoy opposing the vaccine mandates.
The group of protesting truckers had made a Facebook web page named “Convoy to DC 2022”. Facebook has eliminated this web page on Wednesday for violating insurance policies round QAnon. In October 2020, Facebook had labeled QAnon a “violence-inducing conspiracy network” and introduced group pages and admins tied to QAnon will probably be eliminated. 
According to a report by Fox News, the Facebook account of Jeremy Johnson, who had created this web page, has additionally been eliminated. He has now contacted a lawyer to determine his subsequent transfer. Reacting to this, Johnson stated, “They like to silence people that speak the truth.”
Brian Brase who had helped in organizing this protest has stated “I was troubled by the alleged censorship without further clarification from Facebook’s parent company Meta. I have to laugh about that. They actually had offered the administrators to remove content and then request to review again. They didn’t even give that option.”
Mike Landis, one of many protesting truckers has stated “The protest has been a long time coming and the Americans are fatigued by ongoing government overreach in the form of pandemic-related mandates.” He additional advised Fox News “The presence of that amount of people that show that they are unhappy with what’s going on is a good way to hopefully get their attention.”
The American truckers need fast finish to vaccine mandates and therefore had been planning the truck protests. They are presently March 1 because the tentative date for protests.