WATCH: Ari Hoffman interviews Bethany Mandel after her children’s book company was banned from Facebook
“See you later! Thanks for all your money,” is how Mandel describes Facebook banning them after taking her company’s advertising dollars.
“See you later! Thanks for all your money,” is how Mandel describes Facebook banning them after taking her company’s advertising dollars.

Mark Zuckerberg’s social media empire decided kids books that discuss figures like Amy Coney Barrett, Ronald Reagan, or Thomas Sowell are not worthy of being advertised.
As reported earlier today, the children’s book publisher Heroes of Liberty’s ads account was permanently disabled by Facebook amid claims of "Low Quality or Disruptive Content."
The Post Millennial's Ari Hoffman interviewed the company’s editor and board member Bethany Mandel Monday on Talk Radio 570 KVI.
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View on Rumble"We’re looking into options, but we just seem to be up a creek," Mandel told Hoffman.
Earlier on Monday, Mandel explained how a sizable amount of their funding was devoted to the social media marketing space.
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View on XHoffman described the Heroes of Liberty collection as being more about America, than conservatism per say. Mandel believes that people who left negative comments on the ads also mass reported them to Facebook, and staff at the company just happened to agree with the random Facebook users.
The uptick in demand for children’s books that focus on more conservative subject matter comes amid progressives attempting a cultural takeover of the classroom curriculum with ideological messaging of their own.
Following tremendous blowback to the decision to ban Heroes of Liberty, Facebook's parent company Meta, restored the account.
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View on XThe far-left were previously outraged last month over the success of Matt Walsh’s book about a child who wanted to be a walrus. In a commentary on the fixation over gender-transition surgeries, Johnny’s mother is pressured by activists online to pursue a process to change her human son into an animal.
Elephants Are Not Birds by Ashley St. Clair was authored and published around the same timeframe as Walsh’s creation.
Political commentator and documentary filmmaker Lauren Southern also has a pair of children’s books: Henry the Sheepdog and the Wolf of Mossville and The ABCs of Morality.
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