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Today’s Action: Tell Facebook and Instagram to ban Laura Loomer for hate speech
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Today’s Action: Tell Facebook and Instagram to ban Laura Loomer for hate speech
If you haven’t heard of Laura Loomer, congratulations, and feel free to avoid. She’s your typical extremist right-wing, bigoted lie-machine with about a hundred thousand followers on social media. Previously removed from Twitter, Uber, and Lyft for violating hate speech terms and conditions, Loomer is still at-large on Facebook and Instagram.
But in the past few weeks, Loomer has been doing more than *just* parroting Fox News and Trump and generally hating on immigrants and Muslims – she’s been inciting her followers to “rise up” against Minnesota Freshman Congresswoman Ilhan Omar. Loomer’s words to her crazy followers are dangerous for Omar, who has received floods of death threats since taking office.
Tweet at Facebook (@Facebook) and Instagram (@Instagram) to ban Laura Loomer. Tell them to honor their own policies about hate speech, especially against an individual like Ilhan Omar already under serious threat of attack. Include the hashtag #IStandWithIlhan.
If you haven’t heard of Omar, you should: she’s one of the fresh faces of the progressive movement in Congress, a young woman of color, and an unapologetically practicing Muslim. In short: she’s everything the extreme (and the moderate, TBH) right fears.
Loomer has intentionally nudged her followers to potentially violent acts, claiming Omar wants “another 9/11” (this is utterly false) and calling Islam “a cancer on humanity.” But despite complaints, Facebook and Instagram (same company) haven’t yet budged.
Time to budge them.
Tell Facebook (@Facebook) and Instagram (@Instagram) to follow their own policies on hate speech and remove extremist Laura Loomer from their sites for her violent-inciting words against Congresswoman Ilhan Omar. Use the hashtag #IStandWithIlhan to elevate your message!
PS — Please don’t forget to sign the petition to demand Attorney General Barr resign after betraying the public trust to protect Trump, and check out the brilliant “Don’t Think of an Elephant” by George Lakoff — a quick read that contains the ultimate keys for Democrats to win elections — and arguments.