One of the nation’s most prominent conservative colleges became the victim of online censorship after it offered a course that was critical of Communism and Marxism.
Facebook shut down the online courses page administered by Hillsdale College.
“The @hillsdaleonline Facebook page has been down since Monday night, just as we launched a new course on Marxism, socialism, and communism,” the school announced on X. “Facebook is denying people access to our course on repressive ideologies. Such issues are usually resolved within 24 hours, Meta told us.”
Meta told Fox News Digital in a statement: “This page was taken down in error and was restored before we received this inquiry.”
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I don’t believe Meta and you should not either. They have a very long and ugly history of censoring and stifling conservative conversations on its platform. I’ve documented some of the most egregious instances on my website.
“Meta claims that Hillsdale’s entire online course page was taken down for almost 100 hours because of ads they mistakenly flagged on Facebook,” college spokesperson Emily Davis told Fox News. “But those same ads had been running unchanged for over a year. And we don’t even run them on the page they took down! They are on our main Hillsdale College page. The timing of this censorship — right as we launched our new course on Marxism, socialism, and communism — was particularly inopportune.”
The course is especially needed since Vice President Kamala Harris announced that her presidential campaign would embrace some of the dangerous policies that were enacted during the reign of the Soviet Union.
Moreover, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is on the record calling for a crackdown on free speech on American soil.
“There’s no guarantee to free speech on misinformation or hate speech,” he said. The governor failed to explain who would get to decide what classified as hate speech.
So, Americans have every reason to be wary of Meta.
“Meta’s failure to provide an adequate explanation is especially distressing given the grave consequences: A third of our online course enrollments come via Facebook, the majority of them in the first days after we launch a course. We have potentially lost thousands of enrollees,” Davis told Fox. “More importantly, Meta has denied people access to a serious academic course on repressive ideologies.”
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