Facebook suddenly shuts down The Shade Room
A go-to for your daily dose of ratchet news, The Shade Room‘s Facebook page was deleted by the social media conglomerate on Monday. With over 4.4 million likes, many tweeted the popular gossip site to see if it was a fluke.
@NiemanLab @laurahazardowen it was done by Facebook but no reason was given
— TheShadeRoom (@TheShadeRoom) April 18, 2016
The Shade Room’s Twitter account confirmed that they were deleted without reason. For a brief moment, The Shade Room changed their Instagram and Twitter account status to private.
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A Facebook representative claimed the account was removed for violating Facebook’s community standards. Last year, The Shade Room ran into similar issues with the Facebook-owned company Instagram.
The Shade Room founder Angie Nwandu, 25, had just made TIME magazine’s list of most influential people on the internet and the Forbes “30 Under 30 in Media” list.
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A lot of people are questioning what’s behind the shade, when so many hateful and obscene groups and comments remain online.
Facebook allows white racists to post all types of obscenities , but they always seem to only block Black people's pages #TheShadeRoom
— Tariq Nasheed 🇺🇸 (@tariqnasheed) April 19, 2016
In order to get up and running, The Shade Room must go through an appeals process.
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