Rebecca Solnit was temporarily banned from Facebook after posting about the ongoing Los Angeles protests, the San Francisco Chronicle reports.
Solnit, the author of books including The Faraway Nearby, Men Explain Things to Me, and No Straight Road Takes You There, posted Tuesday on the social network Bluesky, “Facebook decided to suspend my account because of a piece (below) I wrote Monday about violence which in no way advocates for it (but does point out who is violent in the current ruckus).” She included a screenshot from Facebook that read in part, “Your account, or activity on it, doesn’t follow our Community Standards on account integrity.”
For seven days now, protesters have taken to the streets in Los Angeles to express their opposition to arrests made by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, part of President Donald Trump’s crackdown on migrants living in the U.S. Some of the protests have resulted in clashes between law enforcement officers and protesters.
In the piece she posted on Facebook, Solnit wrote, “All I've read about so far in L.A. is property damage by [protesters], while we've seen many kinds of violence and intimidation from the heavily armored and armed thugs serving the Trump Administration's war on immigrants.”
On Wednesday, Andy Stone, the communications director of Meta, Facebook’s parent company, posted on the social platform X, “This was an error and the account has been restored.”
Later that day, Solnit posted on Bluesky, “Update to the saga. A bunch of lovely people went to bat for me. Not sure what did it in what I think I might call the ficklesphere, but my account is mine again….Thanks so much to everyone who was kind and supportive.”
Michael Schaub is a contributing writer.
