Sarah Palin Facebook Post Deleted, Thanks to "Social Experiment"
The mystery behind a vanishing Facebook post by Sarah Palin that railed against a planned Ground Zero mosque has been cleared up. She fell victim to a “social experiment.”
Facebook's terms of service prohibit users from posting content that is hateful, threatening, incites violence or contains nudity or graphic violence. But that's not why a blogger called on readers to report a post by Palin, which described a mosque being built on Ground Zero in New York City as "an intolerable mistake."
What happened was, a Tweeter told all his friends to "report" Sarah Palin's Facebook entry as hate speech. Facebook got so many protests that they removed her post from Facebook.
(It has been replaced, and Facebook apologized to Sarah Palin, but the other blogger is still happy about what he had accomplished.)
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