Facebook after the social media platform erroneously removed a video, which showed the Democratic congresswoman displaying a transgender pride flag outside of her office at the U.S.
Capitol, from her official page earlier on Thursday.The federal lawmaker, who began her first term representing Illinois' third congressional district in January, criticized the video's removal for supposed "hate speech" in a screenshot shared to Twitter.In addition to noting that an expression of support for transgender people clearly should not violate any content guidelines, especially those against hateful rhetoric, Newman pointed to what at first seemed like a strange and hypocritical double standard.