BREAKING: Facebook deletes account of prominent professor Bret Weinstein
Weinstein has long been a critic of big tech and authoritarianism.
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Weinstein has long been a critic of big tech and authoritarianism.
Biologist and Podcaster Dr. Brett Weinstein has been deleted from Facebook as of Thursday. Weinstein has long been a critic of big tech and authoritarianism.
"I have been evicted from Facebook. No explanation. No appeal. I have downloaded "my information" and see nothing that explains it," he said on Twitter.
He concludes, "We are governed now in private, by entities that make their own rules and are answerable to no process. Disaster is inevitable. We are living it."
I have been evicted from Facebook. No explanation. No appeal. I have downloaded "my information" and see nothing that explains it.
We are governed now in private, by entities that make their own rules and are answerable to no process. Disaster is inevitable. We are living it. pic.twitter.com/JBTFH2devl
— Bret Weinstein (@BretWeinstein)
Garnering international headlines resulting from a dispute at Evergreen College, Weinstein has been a prominent figure in Intellectual Dark Web and free speech movement. He is a progressive, supported Bernie Sanders, and protested at Occupy Wall Street in 2009. He is however, a major proponent of free speech, making him a constant target of the censorious left.
His account remains deleted at the time of this publication.
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