Last Thursday, Facebook and its subsidiary Instagram permanently banned some individuals and organizations the company deemed &#8220;dangerous.&#8221; Among the permanently deplatformed are Infowars&#8217; Alex Jones and Paul Joseph Watson, right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos, notorious anti-Semite and racist Louis Farrakhan, and right-wing activist Laura Loomer.
In an interview with Jones on Wednesday, Loomer broke down in tears discussing how the bans from Facebook, Instagram and Twitter have eliminated &#8220;90%&#8221; of her income and &#8220;ruined&#8221; her life.
The interview follows a post by Watson expressing concern about Loomer&#8217;s state of mind following the Facebook, Inc. bans. &#8220;Laura Loomer is now basically making thinly veiled suicide threats because of the way she has been treated. And many on here will laugh. Yet we&#8217;re the &#8216;hateful&#8217; ones. OK,&#8221; Watson tweeted on Thursday following Facebook&#8217;s actions. &#8220;I hope Laura is going to be fine; her friends should check on her.&#8221;
On Wednesday, Loomer appeared on Jones&#8217; much-maligned Infowars show to discuss the targeting of voices on the right by social media platforms and the lack of substantive action by Republicans and President Trump, but Loomer soon became overwhelmed with emotion.
&#8220;Like I said, I confronted Congress when Jack Dorsey was testifying in September, and I begged President Trump &#8212; I begged him to do something before it was too late,&#8221; said Loomer (video below via <a href="https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/05/heartbreaking-laura-loomer-breaks-down-in-tears-in-live-interview-my-life-is-ruined-due-to-social-media-targeting-and-banning-video/">GP</a>). &#8220;And that was when I still had access to my Twitter account, but I was mocked &#8230; They mocked me and called me crazy.&#8221;
She then erupted in emotion, exclaiming: &#8220;But what are they doing?! I wanna know what people are actually going to do! My life is ruined! Does anybody understand how ruined my life is?!&#8221; she said, beginning to cry. &#8220;I&#8217;m sick of it &#8212; I don&#8217;t want to listen to people tell me that I&#8217;m a conspiracy theorist! They don&#8217;t know what it&#8217;s like to be me! And I&#8217;m sick of it!&#8221;
In response to Jones pointing out that Trump is at least tweeting about it, she responded: &#8220;I know that he&#8217;s tweeting about it but that&#8217;s not going to stop the fact that I lost 90% of my income. That&#8217;s not going to stop the fact that I literally can&#8217;t make a living anymore &#8212; even though I have a degree! I was valedictorian in college, I graduated top in my class in my journalism program!&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;m fighting harder than anybody &#8212; and I&#8217;m being destroyed, and they mock me!&#8221; she said. &#8220;These people don&#8217;t understand like my life is unlivable at this point in time. Like what is the point?&#8221;
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In a statement to The New York Times last Thursday, Facebook downplayed its decision to permanently ban individuals and organizations they deemed, without clear explanation, to be &#8220;dangerous.&#8221;
&#8220;We&#8217;ve always banned individuals or organizations that promote or engage in violence and hate, regardless of ideology,&#8221; a Facebook representative told the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/02/technology/facebook-alex-jones-louis-farrakhan-ban.html">Times</a>. &#8220;The process for evaluating potential violators is extensive and it is what led us to our decision to remove these accounts today.&#8221;
Related: 
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/34101/facebook-youtube-and-apple-ban-alex-jones-heres-ben-shapiro">SHAPIRO: Facebook, YouTube, And Apple Ban Alex Jones. Here&#8217;s Why They&#8217;re Dead Wrong.</a>
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/38651/watch-laura-loomer-banned-twitter-criticizing-rep-amanda-prestigiacomo">WATCH: Laura Loomer Banned From Twitter For Criticizing Rep. Ilhan Omar, Islam. Here&#8217;s Her Response.</a>

WATCH: Laura Loomer Breaks Down In Tears Over Social Media Bans

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On Thursday, Facebook and Instagram (which is owned by Facebook, Inc.) permanently banned &#8220;dangerous individuals and organizations&#8221; from their platforms. Infowars founder Alex Jones, self-described investigative journalist Laura Loomer, Infowars&#8217; Paul Joseph Watson, provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos, and Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan were among those included in the de-platforming.
&#8220;We&#8217;ve always banned individuals or organizations that promote or engage in violence and hate, regardless of ideology,&#8221; a statement from a Facebook representative said, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/02/technology/facebook-alex-jones-louis-farrakhan-ban.html">according</a> to The New York Times. &#8220;The process for evaluating potential violators is extensive and it is what led us to our decision to remove these accounts today.&#8221;
As <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/media-outlets-label-louis-farrakhan-a-far-right-leader">highlighted</a> by The Washington Examiner, the mainstream media went out of their way to label Farrakhan as a &#8220;far-right leader&#8221; when reporting the censorship:
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The New York Times, the Washington Post, Politico, and the Atlantic were among news organizations that used this description of Farrakhan, leader of the Nation of Islam and a virulent anti-Semite who has long been associated with left-wing politics. After receiving almost immediate criticism for the &#8220;right-wing&#8221; characterization on social media, outlets scrambled their articles.
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Watson, one of the only purged personalities who still maintains a Twitter account, reacted to the act of censorship in a series of tweets. &#8220;Reports are true. I have been banned by Facebook. Was given no reason. I broke none of their rules,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;In an authoritarian society controlled by a handful of Silicon Valley giants, all dissent must be purged.&#8221;
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Reports are true.
I have been banned by Facebook.
Was given no reason. I broke none of their rules.
In an authoritarian society controlled by a handful of Silicon Valley giants, all dissent must be purged.
Please visit <a href="https://t.co/4psjfSdF96">https://t.co/4psjfSdF96</a> while it still exists.
&#8212; Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) <a href="https://twitter.com/PrisonPlanet/status/1124020603688820740?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 2, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Watson suggested Loomer was contemplating suicide over the de-platforming. &#8220;Laura Loomer is now basically making thinly veiled suicide threats because of the way she has been treated. And many on here will laugh. Yet we&#8217;re the &#8216;hateful&#8217; ones. OK,&#8221; Watson wrote. &#8220;I hope Laura is going to be fine; her friends should check on her.&#8221;
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Laura Loomer is now basically making thinly veiled suicide threats because of the way she has been treated. And many on here will laugh. Yet we&#8217;re the &#8220;hateful&#8221; ones. OK.
I hope Laura is going to be fine, her friends should check on her.
&#8212; Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) <a href="https://twitter.com/PrisonPlanet/status/1124064021672603649?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 2, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Jones had his Twitter account permanently banned in September after he confronted a CNN reporter about his de-platforming from other tech companies, CNBC <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/35563/twitter-permanently-bans-alex-jones-infowars-day-ryan-saavedra">reported</a> at the time: &#8220;The ban appears to be related to a heated exchange between Jones and a CNN reporter Wednesday, which Jones live streamed on the Twitter-owned video service Periscope. Jones ranted at the reporter, as well as Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, following back-to-back congressional hearings where Dorsey addressed online election meddling, as well as accusations of political bias and conservative censorship on the platform.&#8221;
Twitter said in a statement that they &#8220;took this action based on new reports of Tweets and videos &#8230; that violate our abusive behavior policy, in addition to the accounts&#8217; past violations.&#8221;
As Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/34101/facebook-youtube-and-apple-ban-alex-jones-heres-ben-shapiro">noted</a> in August, soon after Apple, Facebook, and YouTube decided to <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/06/apple-pulls-alex-jones-infowars-podcasts-for-hate-speech.html">remove content from Infowars</a> in an apparently coordinated effort, the censorship &#8220;is a problem.&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s a problem because these policies are extraordinarily vague,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;These policies aren&#8217;t merely designed to crack down on speech openly advocating or threatening violence, or containing obscenity. These policies are deliberately unclear as well as political.&#8221;
Shapiro underscored how so-called &#8220;hate speech&#8221; is completely subjective:
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What, for example, constitutes &#8220;hate speech&#8221;? Much of what Jones and his employees say is absolutely rotten pig excrement, but there&#8217;s no definition of hate speech that has a limiting principle. Is it &#8220;using dehumanizing language to describe people who are transgender&#8221; to state that transgender people suffer from a mental disorder? Or that they are not in fact members of the gender to which they claim membership? What constitutes &#8220;hate speech&#8221; when discussing the relationship between radical Islam and terrorism? None of this has been made clear.
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&#8220;How exactly are we supposed to trust in free and open debate when those setting the limits are openly setting them up with embedded double-standards?&#8221; Shapiro asked. &#8220;The answer is, we don&#8217;t. Trust in social media is declining nearly as fast as trust in media overall. There&#8217;s a reason for that. And it&#8217;s not because social media tolerates voices like Jones. It&#8217;s because they don&#8217;t tolerate voices like Jones while tolerating voices who are just as bad on the political Left &#8211; and they show no signs of limiting their censorship to Alex Jones.&#8221;

Facebook, Instagram Ban ‘Dangerous’ Figures: Alex Jones, Laura Loomer, Paul Joseph Watson

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On Saturday, right-wing activist Laura Loomer stormed the stage at the Women&#8217;s March in New York City and called out the far-left group&#8217;s anti-Semitism.
The Women&#8217;s March has lost a massive amount of support in recent weeks after the group was rocked by allegations of anti-Semitism from the group&#8217;s founder, and after the group&#8217;s co-president <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/42377/watch-womens-march-leader-refuses-affirm-israels-ryan-saavedra">defended</a> calling anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan the &#8220;greatest of all time&#8221; and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/42377/watch-womens-march-leader-refuses-affirm-israels-ryan-saavedra">refused</a> to say that Israel has the right to exist.
After storming the stage, Loomer shouted, &#8220;The Women&#8217;s March does not represent Jewish people,&#8221; &#8220;What about the Jews?&#8221; and &#8220;The Women&#8217;s March hates Jews.&#8221;
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Laura Loomer tries to grab the mic at the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WomensMarchNYC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WomensMarchNYC</a> saying &#8220;what about the Jews?&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/Kjx5Ifdhm1">pic.twitter.com/Kjx5Ifdhm1</a>
&#8212; Will Greenberg (@wrgree) <a href="https://twitter.com/wrgree/status/1086663161565118466?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 19, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Loomer was later escorted off stage by security and then joined a group of counter-protesters across the street.
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Laura Loomer rushes the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WomensMarch?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WomensMarch</a> stage and screams &#8220;The Women&#8217;s March hates Jews!&#8221; at the crowd, gets escorted off by police. 
(Thanks to <a href="https://twitter.com/Rebell117?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Rebell117</a> for the clip) <a href="https://t.co/rViP5gjvCM">pic.twitter.com/rViP5gjvCM</a>
&#8212; Nick Monroe (@nickmon1112) <a href="https://twitter.com/nickmon1112/status/1086688176805167106?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 19, 2019</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Loomer yelled the names of several activists, including Women&#8217;s March leader Linda Sarsour, and called them &#8216;Jew-haters,'&#8221; The Washington Examiner <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/laura-loomer-grabs-the-mic-the-womens-march-does-not-represent-jewish-people">reported</a>. &#8220;She protested her removal, arguing that Jewish women were invited. Loomer live streamed herself for an additional 30 minutes, standing on a sidewalk near the stage providing commentary to those watching.&#8221;

WATCH: Laura Loomer Storms Stage At Women’s March, Calls Out Anti-Semitism

Women's March

Self-described investigative journalist Laura Loomer brought a handful of illegal immigrants to the home of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on Monday.
Pelosi &#8212; who has been unwavering in her opposition to funding a wall along the southern border, which she&#8217;s classified as an &#8220;immorality&#8221; &#8212; reportedly had Loomer and the illegals removed from her property.
Loomer, accompanied by illegal immigrants from Guatemala and Mexico, lugged a tent onto Pelosi&#8217;s multimillion-dollar vineyard estate, freelance journalist Nick Monroe reported Monday. In large red letters, the word &#8220;immorality&#8221; was written across the tent; there were also photos of murder victims of illegal immigrants hanging from the front of the tent.
Livestreaming the event, Loomer took the time to read each of the victims&#8217; names and reiterate that these folks were not welcome in &#8220;sanctuary state California.&#8221;
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Livestreamer explains the tent has pictures of people who died at the hands of illegal immigrants <a href="https://t.co/6MDTpjBxqp">pic.twitter.com/6MDTpjBxqp</a>
&#8212; Nick Monroe (@nickmon1112) <a href="https://twitter.com/nickmon1112/status/1084903031139897344?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 14, 2019</a></blockquote>
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The controversial journalist even went to check if the Pelosis had locked their front door, since, according to a sarcastic Loomer, &#8220;only bigots lock their doors.&#8221;
&#8220;Come on, you can&#8217;t say everyone is welcome here and then lock your door,&#8221; said Loomer, upon finding the doors locked. &#8220;You&#8217;re killing us, Nancy! You&#8217;re killing us!&#8221;
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Loomer and the illegal migrants chant &#8220;NANCY NANCY&#8221; as they go to see if Nancy Pelosi locks her front door <a href="https://t.co/vOq97OtYcs">pic.twitter.com/vOq97OtYcs</a>
&#8212; Nick Monroe (@nickmon1112) <a href="https://twitter.com/nickmon1112/status/1084902240475844613?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 14, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Police officers were soon called to the property and asked for identification from the illegals and Loomer and company.
&#8220;I was told IDs were racist,&#8221; Loomer repeatedly tells the officers. &#8220;I&#8217;m so confused.&#8221;
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On behalf of Nancy Pelosi, the police is asking Loomer to leave <a href="https://t.co/dcz3rfzmbH">pic.twitter.com/dcz3rfzmbH</a>
&#8212; Nick Monroe (@nickmon1112) <a href="https://twitter.com/nickmon1112/status/1084918355285499905?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 14, 2019</a></blockquote>
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The officers removed the illegals from Pelosi&#8217;s property and had them ticketed instead of being detained, per the House Speaker&#8217;s order.
One of the men accompanying Loomer told viewers, &#8220;I&#8217;m pretty sure the illegals, here; I&#8217;m pretty sure they feel like they&#8217;ve been set up.&#8221;
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Loomer and her illegal immigrant friends are deported from Nancy Pelosi&#8217;s property <a href="https://t.co/NHZBNOXyGi">pic.twitter.com/NHZBNOXyGi</a>
&#8212; Nick Monroe (@nickmon1112) <a href="https://twitter.com/nickmon1112/status/1084918503780560896?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 14, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Earlier this month, Pelosi notably called Trump&#8217;s proposed southern wall an &#8220;immorality.&#8221;
&#8220;The fact is, a wall is an immorality. It&#8217;s not who we are as a nation,&#8221; Pelosi told reporters. &#8220;We are not doing a wall. Does anybody have any doubt? We are not doing a wall,&#8221; she added.
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Nancy Pelosi: &#8220;The fact is, a wall is an immorality. It&#8217;s not who we are as a nation.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/l6dDLDRRf0">https://t.co/l6dDLDRRf0</a> <a href="https://t.co/tq3DDjG0Gp">pic.twitter.com/tq3DDjG0Gp</a>
&#8212; ABC News (@ABC) <a href="https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1081327250832793600?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 4, 2019</a></blockquote>
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As previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/41874/nancy-pelosi-says-wall-immorality-james-woods-asks-amanda-prestigiacomo">reported</a> by The Daily Wire, Pelosi has a wall surrounding the California property Loomer visited on Monday:
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According to a report from right-wing outlet The American Mirror in 2018 (see photos, here), and begrudgingly backed by left-wing fact-checking site Snopes, Pelosi has a barrier around a multimillion-dollar property she and her husband own in Napa Valley.
According to The Washington Post, the estate was worth around $5 million in 2011, and brought in &#8220;at least $5,000 worth of grape sales from the vineyard, according to financial disclosure forms for 2010.&#8221; (Nancy and Paul Pelosi, by the way, are estimated to be worth somewhere between $58.7 and $72.1 million.)
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The government is currently in a partial government shutdown as Democrats refuse to sign onto funding to protect our southern border with a physical barrier.
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livestream <a href="https://t.co/Ee58d9MKfB">https://t.co/Ee58d9MKfB</a>
&#8212; Nick Monroe (@nickmon1112) <a href="https://twitter.com/nickmon1112/status/1084898577552494593?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 14, 2019</a></blockquote>
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WATCH: Laura Loomer Brings Illegal Immigrants To Nancy Pelosi’s Home. Pelosi Has Police Remove Them.

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On Thursday, self-described investigative journalist and activist Laura Loomer handcuffed herself to Twitter&#8217;s New York City headquarters to protest the company&#8217;s inconsistently applied &#8220;hate speech&#8221; policy and their recent ban of her account.
&#8220;I threw away the key, and I&#8217;m here for the millions of conservatives who have been censored by [Twitter CEO] Jack Dorsey and [Facebook CEO] Mark Zuckerberg,&#8221; Loomer said during the demonstration.
Loomer was wearing a yellow Holocaust-era Jewish star on her coat.
The 25-year-old was banned from Twitter last week over a tweet which criticized Rep.-elect Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Islamic practices like female genital mutilation (FGM). &#8220;Isn&#8217;t it ironic how the twitter moment used to celebrate &#8216;women, LGBTQ, and minorities&#8217; is a picture of Ilhan Omar? Ilhan is pro-Sharia Ilhan is pro FGM. Under Sharia homosexuals are oppressed and killed. Women are abused and forced to wear the hijab. Ilhan is anti-Jewish,&#8221; she wrote.
Loomer was standing beneath a homemade poster which featured side-by-side Twitter screenshots of the tweet that earned her the ban and a blatantly anti-Semitic tweet from Louis Farrakhan, who still has an account. &#8220;Loomer blew up Louis Farrakhan&#8217;s tweet calling Jews &#8216;termites&#8217; and showed it side-by-side next to the tweet that she was banned over where she called out Democrat Ilhan Omar for being pro-Sharia law and then listed off how Sharia law targets women and the LGBT community,&#8221; reported The Daily Wire&#8217;s Ryan Saavedra.
Farrakhan&#8217;s &#8220;termite&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/LouisFarrakhan/status/1052304476923719680">tweet</a> is still on Twitter.
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Laura Loomer blew up Louis Farrakhan&#8217;s tweet calling Jews &#8216;termites&#8217; and showed it side-by-side next to the tweet that she was banned over where she called out Democrat Ilhan Omar for being pro-Sharia law and then listed off how Sharia law targets women and the LGBT community. <a href="https://t.co/4d1CzZ8dQW">pic.twitter.com/4d1CzZ8dQW</a>
&#8212; Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1068281199683035136?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 29, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Loomer was holding a sign that linked Farrakhan to Jew-hatred and described herself as a &#8220;nosey Jew.&#8221;
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Loomer&#8217;s sign reads &#8220;jew hatred, a-ok! nosey jew? banned!&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/4Fig0qPWDy">pic.twitter.com/4Fig0qPWDy</a>
&#8212; shoshana wodinsky (@swodinsky) <a href="https://twitter.com/swodinsky/status/1068257936013737984?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 29, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Officers on scene reportedly said they would not arrest Loomer since Twitter would not be pressing charges against her. They also told the activist that they would cut off her handcuffs if she asked them to.
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Police say Twitter isn&#8217;t pressing charges against Laura Loomer, so she can stay as long as she wants. The protest continues! If Laura wants to leave, the police say they&#8217;ll cut the handcuff whenever she wants. <a href="https://t.co/k7h269J08g">pic.twitter.com/k7h269J08g</a>
&#8212; Will Sommer (@willsommer) <a href="https://twitter.com/willsommer/status/1068266677736009728?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 29, 2018</a></blockquote>
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A Twitter spokesperson told Saavedra about Loomer, &#8220;We have notified the relevant authorities who are responding. The account holder was suspended for violating our policies. We apply the Twitter Rules impartially and not based on ideology.&#8221;
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Twitter spokesperson on Laura Loomer: &#8220;We have notified the relevant authorities who are responding. The account holder was suspended for violating our policies. We apply the Twitter Rules impartially and not based on ideology.&#8221;
&#8212; Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1068259600904777728?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 29, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Loomer, however, ended the protest around 6:20 p.m. local time. Her account is still banned.
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Laura Loomer ended her Twitter protest, got cut out of the handcuffs. But she did not get her Twitter account back. <a href="https://t.co/VNKO1uIxJK">pic.twitter.com/VNKO1uIxJK</a>
&#8212; Will Sommer (@willsommer) <a href="https://twitter.com/willsommer/status/1068281295933976577?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 29, 2018</a></blockquote>
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LIVE on <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Periscope?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Periscope</a>: EXCLUSIVE: Laura Loomer Chains Herself to Twitter&#8217;s Front Door For Free Speech <a href="https://t.co/4JkY48EhUH">https://t.co/4JkY48EhUH</a>
&#8212; Dr Jane Ruby (@DrJaneRuby) <a href="https://twitter.com/DrJaneRuby/status/1068244147272859648?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 29, 2018</a></blockquote>
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WATCH: Laura Loomer Chains Herself To NYC Twitter HQ To Protest Ban, Censorship

On Wednesday, right-wing investigative journalist Laura Loomer was permanently suspended from social media platform Twitter over a tweet wherein Loomer criticized Rep.-elect Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Islamic practices like female genital mutilation (FGM).
&#8220;Isn&#8217;t it ironic how the twitter moment used to celebrate &#8216;women, LGBTQ, and minorities&#8217; is a picture of Ilhan Omar? Ilhan is pro-Sharia Ilhan is pro FGM. Under Sharia homosexuals are oppressed and killed. Women are abused and forced to wear the hijab. Ilhan is anti-Jewish,&#8221; said Loomer, 25.
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Laura Loomer not exactly a leading light of journalism. But I see no reason why Twitter would suspend a user for this tweet: <a href="https://t.co/puf7BTB9qO">pic.twitter.com/puf7BTB9qO</a>
&#8212; ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) <a href="https://twitter.com/ianbremmer/status/1065727398602256384?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 22, 2018</a></blockquote>
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The tweet apparently violated Twitter&#8217;s &#8220;rules against hateful conduct,&#8221; which seem to be applied fast and loose and mostly dependent on your political ideology. Loomer, who is Jewish, had accumulated over 260,000 on Twitter before she was effectively silenced.
It took Facebook less than 24 hours to issue a suspension against Loomer.
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BREAKING: <a href="https://twitter.com/facebook?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@facebook</a> just suspended Jewish Conservative journalist <a href="https://twitter.com/LauraLoomer?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@LauraLoomer</a> less than 24 hrs after <a href="https://twitter.com/Twitter?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Twitter</a> permanently banned her yesterday for speaking out about Jew hatred &amp; Sharia Law.
This censorship is out of control and something MUST be done about it. <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDonaldTrump</a> <a href="https://t.co/viQEwc6Wf9">pic.twitter.com/viQEwc6Wf9</a>
&#8212; theJewish Voice (@JewishVoice) <a href="https://twitter.com/JewishVoice/status/1065631175505522688?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 22, 2018</a></blockquote>
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In a statement on social media platform Gab, which describes itself as &#8220;the free speech network,&#8221; Loomer said she has been &#8220;silenced in America for simply telling the truth.&#8221;
&#8220;Free speech is under attack by the Left and big tech companies in this country,&#8221; said Loomer, adding, &#8220;My haters are celebrating today, and they are saying this is the end of my career, but I want everyone to know I&#8217;m just getting started. Everyone who knows me knows I don&#8217;t back down.&#8221;
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An update from Laura Loomer on Gab: <a href="https://t.co/QIcMO2g7TJ">https://t.co/QIcMO2g7TJ</a> <a href="https://t.co/ucVXHakdHY">pic.twitter.com/ucVXHakdHY</a>
&#8212; Gab.com (@getongab) <a href="https://twitter.com/getongab/status/1065652126855049216?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 22, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Rep. Omar, who is Muslim, has a history of anti-Israel comments, and voted against a bill that would block efforts to boycott Israeli businesses.
&#8220;Israel has hypnotized the world, may Allah awaken the people and help them see the evil doings of Israel,&#8221; said Omar in a tweet from 2012, which she defended as recently as May 2018.
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Israel has hypnotized the world, may Allah awaken the people and help them see the evil doings of Israel. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Gaza?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Gaza</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Palestine?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Palestine</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Israel?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Israel</a>
&#8212; Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) <a href="https://twitter.com/IlhanMN/status/269488770066313216?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 16, 2012</a></blockquote>
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Additionally, as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/31685/anti-israel-ellisons-possible-replacement-another-hank-berrien">reported</a> by The Daily Wire, &#8220;In 2017, the Minnesota House passed HF400, the &#8216;Israel Boycott Ban&#8217; bill, which banned the state of Minnesota, including Minnesota colleges and universities, from contracting with vendors boycotting Israel. Omar voted against the bill, saying, &#8216;I would have loved to vote for a bill that expands our ideals of fighting against discrimination, that actually stood up against all discrimination. I don&#8217;t want to be part of a vote that limits the ability of people to fight towards justice and peace.'&#8221;
Loomer recently made headlines for confronting celebrity attorney and anti-Trump activist Michael Avenatti and Women&#8217;s March supporter and actress Alyssa Milano at Politicon in Los Angeles. After Loomer confronted Milano about the Women&#8217;s March&#8217;s leaders&#8217; ties to anti-Semitism, the actress <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/38533/alyssa-milano-groups-co-founder-denounce-womens-james-barrett">denounced</a> them.
On Wednesday, in a video reacting to the Twiiter ban (see below), Loomer called on President Donald Trump to do something about the &#8220;monopolistic&#8221; big tech companies silencing opposition.
&#8220;If you want to win in 2020, you have to ensure your supporters have a voice on social media,&#8221; she implored.
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