Facebook Has a Rule Banning Gun Sales, but You Can Break it 10 Times – Gizmodo

Gun shows are still allowed to advertise on Facebook, according to the site’s guidelines.Photo: Patrick T. FALLON / AFP (Getty Images)Only a few days before the massacre in Uvalde, Texas, the 18-year-old shooter legally bought both rifles he used to claimed the lives of 19 children and two adults. Now that the ease of buying a gun is again back in the public eye, sites like Facebook find they have some ‘splaining to do as to why they don’t do a better job of policing gun sales on the platform.Turns out, there’s not much penalty for you if you want to sell a firearm on the platform, according to reports. It’s also incredibly easy to get around Facebook’s outright ban on sales, as proved when Gizmodo took a look at the local Facebook marketplace.A report from The Washington Post Thursday says internal guidance for Facebook has a rule that both buyers and sellers can be cited for selling firearms on the platform 10 times before their account is removed.Perhaps even worse, the Post described a separate policy for accounts that regularly call for violence or have allegiances to known “dangerous organizations.” In that case, you can only be cited five…
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