Facebook fan page rules deal devastating blow to tribute acts and impersonators

Kelly O’Brien looks like Dolly Parton, sounds like Dolly Parton, and has even been endorsed by the country legend herself.But she’s among a community of tribute acts who say Facebook rules are seeing their pages shut down, as the platform doesn’t allow people to pretend to be someone well known or speak for them without permission. Image: Working 9 to 5 as Dolly Parton O’Brien, who has been performing as Dolly for years, had 4,500 followers to her page which was recently taken down, and says she built those up after a page she had with 15,000 followers was taken down last year.She says it’s devastating.”This is my full-time job – it’s not something that I do on the side. “This is something I take very seriously, I work really hard, I pay a lot of money – like [Dolly Parton] says, it takes a lot of money to look this cheap!”And then all of a sudden, all that work you put into your business, it’s just gone, and you’re like, ‘Wow, where do I go now?’… So, it’s very sad.” Facebook’s parent company Meta says they do allow fan pages but require users to make it clear that they
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