Facebook takes down event pages for several anti-quarantine protests

Enlarge / Protestors demonstrate against Washington state's stay-at-home order at the Capitol building in Olympia on April 19, 2020. (credit: Karen Ducey/Getty Images)

Facebook has nixed event pages for planned protests against stay-at-home measures in California, New Jersey, and Nebraska. The actions come at the request of state officials, who say the gatherings would violate state orders.

Facebook event pages for similar protests in other states remain online.

"Unless government prohibits the event during this time, we allow it to be organized on Facebook. For this same reason, events that defy government's guidance on social distancing aren't allowed on Facebook," a Facebook spokesperson told Politico.

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