{"id":1660135,"date":"2022-09-27T10:08:45","date_gmt":"2022-09-27T14:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1660135"},"modified":"2022-09-27T10:09:30","modified_gmt":"2022-09-27T14:09:30","slug":"miranda-devine-facebook-silencing-activity-related-to-fbi-whistleblower-steve-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/miranda-devine-facebook-silencing-activity-related-to-fbi-whistleblower-steve-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"Miranda Devine: Facebook \u201cSilencing\u201d Activity Related to FBI Whistleblower Steve Friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmiranda-devine-facebook-silencing-activity-related-to-fbi-whistleblower-steve-friend%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1660135&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--columnist inline-module--author\">\n<div class=\"inline-module--author__img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>More evidence of how vindictive, obsessive and <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/09\/14\/facebook-spied-on-private-messages-of-americans-who-questioned-2020-election\/\">downright sinister Facebook is<\/a>: Now it appears to be monitoring private messages and suppressing material related to the whistleblower complaint of heroic FBI special agent Steve Friend.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/09\/21\/fbi-hero-paying-the-price-for-exposing-unjust-persecution-of-conservative-americans\/\">Friend\u2019s bombshell revelations last week<\/a> in a whistleblower complaint to the Department of Justice inspector general, his cause received an avalanche of public and private support, including from former FBI agents and conservative groups.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As reported in this column, Friend\u2019s complaint alleges that the FBI has been manipulating case-file management in order to falsely inflate the threat of domestic terrorism, and has been using unconstitutional and excessive force in efforts to persecute political opponents of the Biden administration. Friend, a SWAT team member in Florida, was suspended by the FBI last week after refusing to participate in what he regarded as an unnecessarily heavy-handed raid over a January 6 misdemeanor.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, Friend\u2019s wife\u2019s Facebook account was suspended after she responded to an offer of support from a local chapter of Moms for Liberty (M4L), a conservative group that advocates for parental rights.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/steve-friend-1-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/steve-friend-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"Friend&#039;s wife had her Facebook account suspended after she received a message of support from a local conservative group.\" class=\"wp-image-24002772\" width=\"248\" height=\"372\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/steve-friend-1-1-1.jpg 496w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/steve-friend-1-1-2.jpg 372w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/steve-friend-1-1-3.jpg 248w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/steve-friend-1-1-4-scaled.jpg&amp;w=124 124w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/steve-friend-1-1-4-scaled.jpg 1024w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Friend\u2019s wife had her Facebook account suspended after she received a message of support from a local conservative group.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Anna Friend<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cWhat can M4L do for Steve Friend right now?\u201d Moms for Liberty had texted a mutual friend. \u201cWe want to offer community support of fundraising (though we feel it would likely be shut down). Can you reach out to him and let him know Moms for Liberty is thinking of him and if we can provide any assistance we are here.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mrs. Friend responded to Moms for Liberty using a private message on her personal Facebook account.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the message, she identified herself as \u201cSteve Friend\u2019s wife,\u201d thanked them for their support, said her husband was in the process of obtaining permission from the FBI to speak publicly and asked them to encourage their members to share his whistleblower story on their personal social media accounts.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>About 30 minutes later, Mrs. Friend received a notification from Facebook that her account had been suspended because the \u201caccount, or activity on it, doesn\u2019t follow our Community Standards.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At the Moms for Liberty end, Mrs. Friend\u2019s Facebook message disappeared. In its place was a notification saying, \u201cMessage unavailable.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Why is Facebook monitoring private messages and attempting to suppress material related to Friend\u2019s protected whistleblower complaint? Were they asked to do so by the FBI?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We reached out to Facebook late Sunday to find out and will let you know their response.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More evidence of how vindictive, obsessive and downright sinister Facebook is: Now it appears to be monitoring private messages and suppressing material related to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1363926,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1660135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1660135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1363926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1660135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1660135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1660135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}