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        <title><![CDATA[Candace Owens Will Sue Facebook over ‘Blatant Censorship’]]></title>
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            <media:title type="html">Candace Owens Will Sue Facebook over ‘Blatant Censorship’</media:title>
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        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>BLEXIT founder Candace Owens will sue Facebook over its &ldquo;blatant censorship&rdquo; after the social media platform demonetized her page following her comments about senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) swearing into congress in 2017 as an &ldquo;Indian-American.&rdquo;</em></p>
<p>Candace Owens said that Facebook has suppressed her page after she commented her thoughts on senator Harris being chosen as Democrat nominee Joe Biden&rsquo;s vice president for the upcoming November election.</p>
<p>&ldquo;I am SO EXCITED that we get to watch [Kamala Harris], who&nbsp;swore into congress as an &lsquo;Indian-American&rsquo;, now play the &lsquo;I&rsquo;m a black a woman&rsquo; card all the way until November,&rdquo; said Owens upon hearing the news. &ldquo;Fun times!&rdquo;</p>
<p>In her post, Owens included an Associated Press&nbsp;image from January 3, 2017, when Harris was sworn in as a senator. The Facebook post was later labeled as exhibiting &ldquo;false information,&rdquo; which was &ldquo;checked by independent fact-checkers.&rdquo;</p>
<p>According to &ldquo;<a href="https://apnews.com/afs:Content:9240201328?fbclid=IwAR1OuItQ1sGDgQF_F3Eu6ETv-Vtvo-bZtiON9Y5vdlUnwozbkaDwRGXCg6c" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">AP&rsquo;s assessment</a>,&rdquo; in interviews, Harris &ldquo;has regularly&nbsp;talked about how her mother, who was from India, raised her as Black.&rdquo; The so-called &ldquo;fact-checkers&rdquo; now claim that &ldquo;social media users&nbsp;are falsely suggesting that Harris only recently began identifying as Black.&rdquo;</p>
<p>&ldquo;I never said that Kamala never said she was black. I said she swore into Congress as Indian-American, which is true,&rdquo; Owens told Breitbart News in a phone interview.</p>
<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s also my opinion that I&rsquo;m looking forward to watching Kamala Harris, who swore into congress as an Indian-American now play the &lsquo;I&rsquo;m a black woman&rsquo; card,&rdquo; continued Owens. &ldquo;Fact checkers can&rsquo;t tell me what I&rsquo;m looking forward to. That is the blatant censoring of an opinion.&rdquo;</p>
<p>The BLEXIT founder added that she will be suing Facebook over its censorship.</p>
<p>&ldquo;Facebook is now hiding behind fact checkers to censor people,&rdquo; she Owens. &ldquo;They say it&rsquo;s third party, but these people obviously have to be in coordination with Facebook.&rdquo;</p>
<p>&ldquo;This is election interference,&rdquo; she added.</p>
<p>Last year, Owens was&nbsp;<a href="https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2019/05/17/facebook-blames-mistake-after-censoring-candace-owens/">suspended</a> on Facebook after posting about &ldquo;liberal supremacists&rdquo; and statistics regarding poverty rates in fatherless homes. Facebook later restored Owens&rsquo; account, claiming it had &ldquo;made a mistake.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Regarding her latest experience with Facebook censorship, Owens mentioned that Lead Stories,which was <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/31/tech/facebook-fact-checking-political-ads/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">co-founded</a>&nbsp;and by Alan Duke, a former CNN employee, has recently become a fact-checker for the social media giant.</p>
<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s a brand new company, and now it&rsquo;s &lsquo;fact checking&rsquo; for Facebook,&rdquo; said Owens. &ldquo;So we&rsquo;re looking forward to having them through discovery.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Owens also explained that she has been able to get &ldquo;false information&rdquo; ratings removed from her Facebook page, but that the process requires a lawyer for each instance of censorship.</p>
<p>&ldquo;Every time you get &lsquo;fact checked&rsquo; and censored, you have to get a lawyer to fight each instance,&rdquo; Owens explained to Breitbart News. &ldquo;Lead Stories eventually removed a false rating they gave me, but you have to go through a lawyer every time &mdash; and it&rsquo;s costly.&rdquo;</p>
<p>&ldquo;All they [fact checkers] have to do is find one opposite opinion, and they can give you a false rating,&rdquo; she added. &ldquo;You have to send a legal letter every time to get it reversed.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Owens added that she will be setting up a legal fund in order to cover the cost of taking on Facebook with her impending lawsuit.</p>
<p>&ldquo;The censorship issue is real and we haven&rsquo;t done enough to fight it as conservatives,&rdquo; she said.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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