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Facebook Removes Any News Reporting On - or Even Mention of - Who the Whistleblower Is Alleged to Be Breitbart

For example, on Wednesday evening, Facebook removed Breitbart posts reporting on on the fact that other respected news outlets have reported that the identity of the alleged whistleblower is Eric Ciaramella.

To be clear, Breitbart did not out the alleged whistleblower but did provide additional relevant reporting about him; he is, after all, a public figure, having served on the National Security Council.

Administrators of Breitbart News Facebook page began receiving notifications on Wednesday evening stating that Breitbarts page is at risk of being unpublished but were not given any details as to why, or even which posts were allegedly at issue.

Yesterday afternoon, however, in response to questions from Breitbart, a Facebook spokesman issued the following statement:

Any mention of the potential whistleblowers name violates our coordinating harm policy, which prohibits content outing of witness, informant, or activist.

Breitbart News is currently the 68th-most visited site in the United States according to Alexa,and the 13th most-engaged Facebook publisher in the world according to NewsWhip.

Multiple other publishers have named the alleged whistleblower or reported on outlets naming him, including Heavy.com, the Washington Examiner, The Federalist,and the Western Journal.

Radio hosts Mark Levin and Glenn Beck, Students for Trump co-chair Ryan Fournier, former Deputy Assistant to the President Sebastian Gorka, bestselling author Dinesh DSouza, One America News host Jack Posobiec, and TownHall.com senior columnist Kurt Schlichter are among the other public figures and major media personalities who have also named the alleged whistleblower.

Other publishers that have named the alleged whistleblower on Facebook have reported that their posts have been taken down as well.

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Author: Libertarianblue

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