Yesterday morning, the anti-abortion group Live Action launched a Tweetstorm alleging that Pinterest was discriminating against it for its beliefs. The group, which rose to infamy with heavily edited Planned Parenthood undercover “sting” videos, said that it had been put on Pinterest’s domain “block list” and had its account permanently suspended for spreading “misinformation.” Lila Rose, Live Action’s founder, suggested that the group had been wrongly censored out of partisan bias.“Pinterest Logic: You can freely pin if you’re Planned Parenthood, an abortion provider,” she tweeted. “But if you’re a pro-life group & pin about the beauty & humanity of a baby in the womb, you’re banned bc you’re a threat to ‘Pinner’s health or safety.’”
an image in the style of the company’s logo that reads, “Partisanterest,” a slogan which should probably be workshopped a bit more.James O’Keefe
, the rightwing activist famed for releasing undercover video “stings” targeting liberal groups. The piece claims to have insider information showing that Pinterest put Live Action on a “domain block list,” which identifies URLs that cannot be linked on the site.
resource. The article goes so far as to name a Pinterest employee who is alleged to have added the site to its blocklist.A Pinterest spokesperson told Jezebel, “We took action on LiveAction.org several months ago for violating our misinformation policy related to conspiracies and health, and not for any other reason.”that, in addition to the URL being broadly banned from the site, the group’s Pinterest account had been disabled.
Jezebel she would die for the anti-abortion cause, and the Live Action Twitter account used this message as a prompt to began pontificating about Pinterest’s partisan bias.
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