Laura Loomer pushes Meta to put her on advisory board to prove it’s ‘serious about ending censorship’
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Hours earlier, Meta announced that it plans to ditch fact-checkers as part of an effort toward ‘restoring freedom of expression’ on Facebook and Instagram. Trump ally Laura Loomer suggested Meta should put her on its advisory board hours after the social media giant’s CEO announced it was scrapping fact-checkers.
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Meta plans to ditch its fact-checkers and start using Community Notes, similar to X’s system, Mark Zuckerberg announced in a video Tuesday morning, citing the recent election, “politically biased” fact-checkers,” and “too much censorship” on social platforms.
Hours later, Loomer, a notorious far-right conspiracy theorist and vocal supporter of Trump, said she wants to be added to the tech company’s advisory board. She argued she was the perfect person for the job, given her turbulent history with social media platforms.
“Think about it. Facebook permanently banned me in 2019, then they permanently banned me on Instagram, then they created a new policy to keep my campaign off of Facebook, they banned all of my campaign ads and they banned keyword searches of my name,” Loomer continued. She mentioned how Meta put her on its “dangerous individuals list.”.
Loomer even sued Meta, then Facebook, in 2019 for defamation after she was put on the “dangerous individuals list.” The case was ultimately dismissed. Last month, Loomer engaged in what she described as a “civil war” with Elon Musk and others in the MAGA world over H-1B visas. She accused Musk of “silencing” her and removing her blue check mark on X “because I dared to question his support for H1B visas.”.
