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An Inconvenient Post: How I Was Censored in a Facebook Group for Journalists

An Inconvenient Post: How I Was Censored in a Facebook Group for Journalists
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This past month, I figured that my two-day-old post in a Facebook group for journalism school alumni and students, in which I voiced opposition to censorship of free speech on social media, was nearing the end of its active life. I reached this conclusion when one of the group’s members added a long comment below the post that featured, of all things, one of Shakespeare’s sonnets.

Adam Michael Molon
Adam Michael Molon
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Adam Michael Molon is an American writer and journalist. He holds a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University and undergraduate degrees in finance and Chinese language from Indiana University-Bloomington.
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