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Facebook and Instagram Censor Anti-Trump Posters. The social media companies have removed images of posters made by the publisher Badlands Unlimited that parody Westboro Baptist Church protest signs.

Facebook and Instagram have censored Badlands Unlimited for posting images of a series of rainbow-hued posters with such anti-Trump messages as “FAGS HATE TRUMP” and “GOD HATES IVANKA.” The independent publisher had posted the images on its various social media platforms on January 19, in order to share and distribute them in anticipation of the Women’s Marches in Washington, DC, and New York City. The next day, however, it received a message from Facebook saying that the images did not meet “community standards” and another from Instagram about how the images did not “follow community guidelines.” Both platforms removed the images of the posters, although some photographs showing signs made from them are still up, and the graphics remain on Twitter.

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