The Advocate has sought comment from Facebook and is awaiting a reply.Posts previously removed from the society’s social media pages included advertisements for volunteers at the Folsom Street Fair in 2017, one on Facebook and one on Instagram, depicting bare-chested leather men but not including nudity or suggestive language.
The ads were reinstated after an appeal. Then, in August 2018, the society was unable to promote a Facebook post publicizing an upcoming program about the history and current state of transgender rights activism.
The most recent incident, however, involved a content-based post, not an ad.“This wasn’t the first time our posts have been flagged and it probably won’t be the last time that our content is censored by the.