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Facebook Threatens to Censor Conservative Hodgetwins on Same Day NYT Laments Their Success

Facebook has threatened to blacklist the page of conservative comedy duo Kevin Hodge and Keith Hodge, better known as the Hodgetwins, on the same day thatThe New York Timesidentified them among the most successful conservative content creators on the platform.

Earlier today, the New York Timespublished an article lamenting the success of conservative content creators on Facebook, with the Hodgetwins featured as a prominent example.

TheNYTcomplains that the two most popular posts about Black Lives Matter on the platform are videos from the Hodgetwins critiquing the movement:

The most-shared Facebook post containing the term Black Lives Matter over the past six months is a June video by the right-wing commentators The Hodgetwins, which calls the racial justice movement a damn lie.

On the same day that the article was published, the Hodgetwins reported on Twitter that Facebook threatened to unpublish their page.

How is it that the social media masters allow some of the most vile people on the left to say and do anything without threat of censure or deplatforming, but conservative comedians are going to be thrown off platforms for being funny while speaking the truth?

A Hodgetwins video called AOC: You Crazy was also removed by Facebook and used to issue a community guidelines violation against the page.

Conservative nonprofit PragerU noted that their Facebook page of over 4 million followers is also at risk of being unpublished.

In a comment to Breitbart News, the Hodgetwins said that Facebooks attempt to censor them would not cripple their business.

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