Facebook temporarily blocks Black Lives Matter activist after he posts racist email

The ban against Shaun King, which was revoked as a 'mistake' hours later, is the latest incident of site censoring users following Vietnam war photo removal

Facebook temporarily banned a well-known Black Lives Matter activist and writer who posted a racist message he received, raising fresh questions about the way the social media site censors journalists.

Shaun King - a senior justice writer for the New York Daily News, who frequently writes viral stories about police brutality - posted on his Facebook page a screenshot of an email that twice called him the N-word, saying "FUCK YOU N*****!" The technology corporation said it was blocking him from posting for 24 hours, saying he had violated its "community standards".