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Happened, but it targeted more than just right-wingers, though they bore the brunt of it. Pretty much every local political activist I know had their accounts r
by crocodiletears 6y ago
Happened, but it targeted more than just right-wingers, though they bore the brunt of it. Pretty much every local political activist I know had their accounts restricted right before the election. In addition:
Most libertarian groups and pages I know affiliated with the 'boogaloo' movement caught a ban
Most of the pro-trump pages I know caught a ban, as well as pro-trump groups involved in on the ground activism
A few left anarchist groups I was in caught a ban.
It wasn't so much 'purge of the right', there's always a low-level purge of right wing pages going on, either because of moderator bias, or simply because leftists and/or liberals spend more of their free time infiltrating groups and reporting right wing content than vise-versa.
Rather, it struck me as an attempt to suppress protests and potential violence in the streets on either side of the political divide in the days subsequent to the election.