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Facebook Is Banning Women for Calling Men ‘Scum’

‘Absolutely Silencing Women’

Women had accounts banned from Facebook for responding to male trolls with sentences like ‘men are trash,’ in part because the company classifies white men as a protected group.

Taylor Lorenz
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