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Originally Posted by martyh
That is my take on it .Facebook takes it revenue from advertising and having perceived political allegiances could negatively affect that revenue.
Face book was set up as a social network site for people to share their lives not as a political sounding board for extremists and activists which appears to be the way it's going ,not that i use facebook much either that is just my perception .
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I can accept that, it does sound perfectly plausible imo. My initial impression was that the timing was a bit suspect, but by that same token it could be that perhaps facebook alone has been waiting for a convenient time to rid it's association with these groups - that is if they are in fact permanenly deleting these accounts. I'm finding it rather difficult to come to any definitive conclusion based on what we know so far, especially considering Mr A's post above about issuing instructions on how to reactivate the accounts. If this is true, then that appears to contradict both hypotheses on why the accounts were deleted/deactivated. For all I can gather, it could well have just been a mistake and we've all read far too deeply into it !
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Originally Posted by Mr Angry
It appears facebook are issuing instructions to the owners of those sites affected on how to reactive them but this will take "a couple of days".
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It'll be interesting to see whether or not the hundreds if not thousands of comments and network contacts are also restored if and when the groups/accounts are restored.