Just two weeks after receiving a request from the shadow minister for health and ageing, Mark Butler, to take ‘appropriate action to protect public health’ in relation to Craig Kelly’s ‘harmful content’, Facebook banned Craig Kelly from its platform for seven days.
Whether Facebook was following the demands of the Labor party to silence an effective and popular political opponent cannot possibly be known.
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