Facebook has reversed course after “permanently' disabling the ads account of a conservative children's book publisher, claiming that Heroes of Liberty – which has published books about Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett, former President Ronald Reagan and author Thomas Sowell – violated the company's rules against “Low Quality or Disruptive Content.”
CHILDREN'S BOOK SERIES HAILS ‘HEROES OF LIBERTY’ LIKE RONALD REAGAN, AMY CONEY BARRETT, 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. After Heroes of Liberty appealed, Facebook sent another message. "After a final review of this ad account, we confirmed it didn't comply with our Advertising Policies or other standards," the message reads. "You can no longer advertise with this ad account and its ads and assets will remain disabled. This is our final decision."Heroes of Liberty aims to produce high-quality children's books promoting American values. The publisher opened shop on Nov.
"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," she 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 suggested that Facebook caved to a vocal minority of users who claimed that Heroes of Liberty was disruptive."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 Barret; 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.