Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says her Facebook account is back up and running after a temporary restriction that prompted her to accuse the social media giant of censorship.
“Big tech and government censorship is becoming a danger to free speech around the world,” Smith said in a June 14 message on Twitter, announcing, “My Facebook account has been banned from posting content for a ‘few days.’”
Her message tagged Elon Musk, owner of Twitter, and Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Facebook, saying, “As the Premier of a province of 4.6 million Albertans- if they can prevent me from communicating with you, imagine what they can do to any one of us. Regardless of our political leanings, we must all stand against censorship.”
Smith included a screenshot from Facebook which contained a warning message stating, “Sorry, you can’t post to Facebook from this account.: For security reasons, your account has limited access to the site for a few days. If you have any questions, please contact our Help Center.”
David Troya-Alvarez, a spokesperson for Meta, told The Epoch Times on June 15 that “There were no restrictions placed on the Premier’s Page.”
“One of the Page’s administrators faced restrictions, but that did not impact the underlying Page’s ability to post content,” said Troya-Alvarez.
“Just take some of the stuff around COVID earlier on in the pandemic, where there were real health implications, but there hadn’t been time to fully vet a bunch of the scientific assumptions and, unfortunately, I think a lot of the establishment on that kind of waffled on a bunch of facts,” said Zuckerberg.
The Facebook founder said members of the scientific community “asked for a bunch of things to be censored that, in retrospect, ended up being more debatable or true.”
“That stuff is really tough. It really undermines trust,” he said.
