Facebook has told MAGA Inc. spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt that it is deleting her Facebook page with 12,000 followers. The warning came shortly after Leavitt announced she was joining MAGA Inc., a PAC supporting the candidacy of Donald Trump.
In a message to Leavitt, Facebook accused the spokeswoman of maintaining a page that “goes against our community standards.” Following an appeal of this decision, Facebook informed her that it had scheduled her page for deletion.
In a tweet, Leavitt said that the incident occurred just a week after she joined the Trump-supporting PAC.
I just received this message from @facebook saying they are going to DELETE my official account
…one week after joining @MAGAIncWarRoom as Spokeswoman
Odd timing, @Meta? Explain yourselves! pic.twitter.com/k5x2Ub7bf0
— Karoline Leavitt (@kleavittnh) April 7, 2023
“I just received this message from Facebook saying they are going to DELETE my official account…one week after joining @MAGAIncWarRoom as Spokeswoman,” said Leavitt on Twitter. “Odd timing, Meta? Explain yourselves!”
Donald Trump himself was banned from Facebook for over two years, after the platform along with other tech giants moved to blacklist the president following the events of Jan 6, 2021.
FILE – Former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in support of the campaign of Ohio Senate candidate JD Vance at Wright Bros. Aero Inc. at Dayton International Airport, Nov. 7, 2022, in Vandalia, Ohio. Trump picking Waco, Texas, for the first rally of his 2024 campaign Saturday, March 25, 2023, will put him in the middle of a big Republican state that has reliably delivered him big crowds. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy, File)
Facebook lifted Trump’s ban from both its main platform and Instagram in January after a two-year suspension, and last month the former President made his first new post on Facebook in over two years.
Google-owned video platform YouTube, which also banned the president following Jan 6, restored Trump’s access shortly after Facebook.
Both of these reinstatements occurred months after Twitter restored the former president’s access to the platform following Republican-voting tech billionaire Elon Musk’s takeover of the company.
Trump, who created the Twitter alternative TRUTH Social following his blacklisting by Silicon Valley, has yet to make any new tweets since regaining access to the platform.
Breitbart News has reached out to Facebook (now known as Meta) for comment, but has received no response at the time of publication.
Allum Bokhari is the senior technology correspondent at Breitbart News. He is the author of #DELETED: Big Tech’s Battle to Erase the Trump Movement and Steal The Election.