SOCIAL MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Facebook has apologized to the White House’s social media director for blocking his Facebook page. The apparent reason? His posts too closely resembled that of a bot. Dan Scavino, the director of social media for the White House, on Tuesday [3-19-19] noticed that he was unable to post comments on the page and created a separate post decrying to Facebook: ‘AMAZING. WHY ARE YOU STOPPING ME from replying to comments followers have left me – on my own Facebook Page!!?? People have the right to know. Why are you silencing me??? Please LMK! Thanks.’ Facebook’s note on his page said he had been ‘temporarily blocked from making public comments on Facebook. Some of your comments have been reported as spam’…But President Trump, who also on Tuesday tweeted that ‘Facebook, Google and Twitter, not to mention the Corrupt Media, are soo on the side of the Radical Left Democrats,’ perceived the action as possibly politically motivated.”
–Mike Snider, “Facebook temporarily blocked White House official’s page because it acted like a bot,” USA Today, March 20, 2019 8:40 am