Facebook deactivated journalist’s account for posting story about sex offender

Left, the message shown to journalist Kate Faulkner when she tries to log into Facebook. Right, the Kent Online story post that resulted in the bans. Facebook deactivated the personal account of a local news journalist who posted a link to a story about a sex offender on the page of her employer. A Facebook page for Iliffe-owned Kent radio station KMFM was also temporarily taken down for a “breach of community standards” after the story was posted on Saturday morning but was restored within just 20 minutes after a successful appeal. Kate Faulkner is a newsreader and reporter for KMFM and part of her job involves posting links to the local stories that have been run on air on the broadcaster’s Facebook news page (separate to the main KMFM page). Faulkner’s personal account was deactivated on Saturday and was only restored on Thursday afternoon after Press Gazette got in touch with the Meta press office. Before that, although the KMFM page had been unblocked, Faulkner’s own appeal was rejected and she had been unable to get in touch with anyone from Meta herself. The action also took down her Instagram and Facebook Messenger accounts. The case is reminiscent of
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