Franklin Graham Has Perfect Response After Facebook’s ‘Personal Attack’

Recently, President of Samaritan’s Purse and the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association Franklin Graham reported being banned from Facebook because of a 2-year-old post.

It seemed to be one more in a long list of suspected censorship attacks against conservatives.

But Graham knew just how to respond.

Last week I was banned from posting on @Facebook for 24 hrs because of a 2016 post about NC’s House Bill 2 (bathroom bill). They said the post went against their “community standards on hate speech.” Facebook is making & changing the rules. 1/2 https://t.co/HYIgErnp3J

— Franklin Graham (@Franklin_Graham) December 29, 2018

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.@Facebook is censoring free speech. They’re making & changing the rules. Truth is truth. God made the rules & His Word is truth. The free exchange of ideas is part of our country’s DNA. You can read the post that Facebook took down last week here: 2/2 https://t.co/SIbgivZjTo

— Franklin Graham (@Franklin_Graham) December 29, 2018

But now it seems Facebook has taken heed. On Sunday, Graham shared the news on his Twitter account that the social media platform apologized to him and admitted his post did not violate its rules, after all.

He could have gloated or ripped on the tech giant for being so quick to act without facts. Instead, he accepted its apology.

Thank you to @Facebook for the apology, the admission that my April 9, 2016 post didn’t go against your Community Standards, and the corrective action taken. @FoxNews has asked me to be on this morning at 9:20 to discuss this issue. pic.twitter.com/dtFGtLOtIB

— Franklin Graham (@Franklin_Graham) December 30, 2018

While appearing on “Fox & Friends,” Graham spoke more about the banning and how he accepted Facebook’s apology.

He again showed grace in handling Facebook’s response. “I accept Facebook’s apology and I appreciate them stepping up and doing that.

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But he didn’t completely let company off the hook for it. “(But) I think (the banning) was just really a personal attack towards me.”

In addressing the seeming bias in Facebook’s banning of him, Graham offered the tech giant some words of advice.

“Facebook’s a private company and they can certainly do what they want,” he said.  “But (Facebook CEO) Mark Zuckerberg said Facebook is a platform for all ideas. I encourage Facebook to have a standard that doesn’t move.”

Graham then added some details about what such a standard could look like. He used free speech and the Bible as his guide.

“They ought to just come up with a standard based on God’s word that applies to all people everywhere. Let (Facebook) be a platform for all ideas.”

Graham was quick to add that while he supports free speech he does see a problem with certain speech. He is in agreement with Facebook on at least in one part of its policy.

“I’m against hate speech, I’m against people using Facebook to incite violence against someone, that’s terrible,” he said.

Graham’s point about Facebook coming up with “a standard that doesn’t move” is something many users, on both sides of the political aisle, could get behind.

The best way for users to be in compliance with rules is for them to be clearly stated and uniformly enforced.

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