Facebook Blocks ‘Reagan’ Posts with Joe Rogan, Megyn Kelly
New media titans accuse social media giant of digital censorship
“There they go again.”
No, that wasn’t President Ronald Reagan but Dennis Quaid, the actor who brings the late leader to life in “Reagan.” The movie, out Aug. 30, recalls the president’s remarkable life from his days as a humble lifeguard to leader of the free world.
Getting the word out about the film has been “complicated,” to use a common Facebook phrase.
Quaid shared how Facebook, now officially known as Meta, initially banned “Reagan” marketers from boosting posts tied to the film on “The Joe Rogan Experience.”
“Censorship is happening to us through Facebook,” Quaid told the Spotify host. “The content in [the posts] was ‘an attempt to sway an election.'”
Newsweek reported that the problem began months ago after Quaid appeared on a podcast hosted by Dr. Jordan Peterson. Facebook prevented the film’s marketers from boosting a clip from that interview for brand awareness.
Another post that couldn’t be boosted on the platform? A photograph of Quaid as President Reagan with the following quote:
“Don’t let anyone tell you that America’s best days are behind her—that the American spirit has been vanquished…We’ve seen it triumph too often in our lives not to believe it now.”
Boosting posts allows for far greater reach as well as targeting select demographics.
Rogan and fellow new media giant Megyn Kelly slammed Facebook following Quaid’s allegations. The “Reagan” team sent a letter to Facebook’s founder Mark Zuckerberg requesting answers.
A Facebook official publicly apologized via Newsweek.
“While there are no restrictions on this page that would prevent the admins from posting, we did identify a handful of ads from this account that were incorrectly rejected. This happened because our automated systems mistakenly determined that content about President Reagan required prior authorization in accordance with our policies for ads about Social Issues, Elections or Politics. This was a mistake and the restriction on the ads has been lifted.”
The matter appeared to be settled though “Reagan’s” team said they never heard directly from the company.
Then another “Reagan”-themed post couldn’t be boosted by the film’s marketers just weeks before the movie’s release.
And another.
“Reagan” PR officials shared screen caps with HiT showing the platform blocked them from boosting new videos tied to the film. The clips in question hailed from both Rogan and Kelly’s respective podcasts.
Why?
The clips allegedly went against the platform’s “Advertising Standards, Community Standards or Terms of Service.
The host of “The Megyn Kelly Show” dubbed the flurry of Facebook moves “moronic”
“The irony in Facebook banning ‘Reagan’ ads is that this is a movie about a historic figure who, yes, was a politician, but whose bipartisanship and friendship with Democrats is an important part of the film,” Kelly told Hollywood in Toto.
“It’s a movie about America, and how we used to talk to each other and respect each other, irrespective of political differences. On cue, Facebook bans promotion of the film, apparently seeing it as socially divisive,” Kelly added.
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Eric McClellan, “Reagan’s” director of digital marketing, denied the posts in question had anything to do with November’s presidential election.
“Our posts promote discussion about our film to our fans and others. But Facebook again denied our boosts, claiming they could ‘influence public opinion, how people vote and may influence the outcome of the election,'” McClellan told HiT.
HiT has reached out to Meta/Facebook for comment.
It’s ironic since Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg admitted in 2022 that his platform depressed news of the Hunter Biden laptop story at the behest of the U.S. government. That likely had far more potential impact on the electorate than conversations about a president who died in 2004.
A 2022 poll conducted by New Jersey-based Technometrica Institute of Policy and Politics found that eight out of 10 Americans thought the laptop story’s suppression impacted the 2020 election.
Facebook IS the government. Grow up,wake up.
If this had been a movie about how great Obama was Facebook would take it upon themselves to promote it.
I mean, but if you’re still using Fascistbook after all the Orwellian crap it’s pulled in the last 10 years, then you’re a hopelessly irredeemable, vapid, traitorous thrall; and you’re the antithesis of everything Reagan stood for anyway. So why would the Reagan Movie waste advertising dollars there anyway? Let those evil morons starve in every sense of the word!
When will you morons learn that Facebook is under no requirement to provide free speech? They can ban anything they damn well please from their platform because it’s their platform. Freedom of speech applies to governmental action and only governmental action
A. The government leaned on Facebook to block the Hunter Biden laptop story. Are you OK with that?
B. Are you pro censorship? Just curious…
C. If Facebook was transparent then it would help … Hey, we’re a progressive platform and we censor right-leaning thoughts. No, they won’t dare say that and we all know why.
you remember that when they block or censer something you care about. or something very important to you!!!
Yep, you are a full blown communist, “Tired of your Bs”.
If the commoners saw how great things were under a great Conservative Republican President, they just might not vote for Harris, and it would, therefore, be influencing the 2024 election. That has to be the twisted logic of banning these promos.
Reagan was a pure scumbag. Destroyed the economy, destroyed mental Healthcare in this country and ignored the worst health crisis in American history. Not to mention being a total racist and allowing corporations to have zero rules and regulations letting them run roughshod over Americans.
If that’s true how come my parents had insurance through there work for the whole family 100% paid by there employer instead we haVe a communist government telling us what to do at every turn. Look around there are no jobs democrats made sure of that unless your a socialist
Sort of like how Demokkkrats have run roughshod over the Constitution?
you clearly are not remembering history right… you better get back in to your history. if he was so damn bad then why did he win 49 states..
How much does the DNC pay you to post asinine statements like that? Or, are you in academia pushing or soaking up Marxist ideology? That might make more sense, since Reagan did win the Cold War and set the stage for the demise of your lovely Soviet Union.
Found a Soviet sympathizer here. Bs, just admit you sympathize with the fallen Soviet Union.
Proves how insane Mark Zuckerberg and his employees have become.
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All within The Party, nothing outside The Party, nothing against The Party.
Reagan isn’t on the ticket this year. The media giants think every Republican past and present are the same when the Democrats are famous for going Left. Reagan even said so. Another Democrat who became Republican.