Facebook bans Libs of TikTok after vile campaign against Boston Children’s Hospital

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Anti-LGBTQ social media personality and Brooklyn real estate agent Chaya Raichik – who goes by “Libs of TikTok” on social media – has been banned from Facebook.

In a Wednesday evening Twitter post, she said that Meta had permanently suspended access to its Facebook account. Meta is the parent company of Facebook and Instagram.

“They suspended our account and we immediately appealed. Within 2 minutes they answered that we’re suspended for good. I’m sure we totally got a full and fair review,” read one tweet.

“Our page is back up on Facebook but we are still locked out and were last told that it’s permanent. Perhaps it was just an ‘error,’” read a subsequent tweet.

As of Thursday morning, the Libs of TikTok page is still visible on the platform.

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The Facebook ban follows a misinformation campaign by Libs of TikTok targeting Boston Children’s Hospital. On August 11, Raichik reposted the “expose” by Christina Buttons for the right-wing site Post Millennial, sponsored by conspiracy theorist Mike Lindell, the CEO of My Pillow. The “special report” consists of videos publicly available on Boston Children’s website along with commentary insinuating that children as young as two or three were getting gender-affirming surgery.

Fact-checking site PolitiFact later debunked the claims. Patients qualifying for gender-reaffirming surgery must be at least 18-years-old and have…

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