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The article says Facebook considers this a mistake in their censorship system; they aren't ok with banning Christmas messages. Although keeping an eye on them for signs of overt racism and religious bigotry is a good idea given the amount of power they have and their willingness to exercise it over political topics.

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It's easy to blame the algo or some low level staffer when a platform gets called out publicly for blatant censorship.

The ex-CEO of Twitter, Hipster Rasputin whatshisname, admitted that censoring the Biden laptop story from the NY Post in October 2020, and shutting down any account that shared the story, was a "mistake" and only reinstated the NY Post account 2 weeks after they said it was a mistake. Of course he blamed the Post because they "only" needed to delete the tweet with the link to the story in order to reinstate the account.

If the ban was a "mistake" then why do they need to delete the tweet?

Twitter engages in political censorship on behalf of the left wing. But that is different from what is discussed in this article and this thread. Christmas enjoys broadly bipartisan support.

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