Facebook Hillsdale College shuts down online course page On the same day, the school began a course criticizing communism and Marxism.
” Hillsdale Online The Facebook page has been down since Monday night, when the group launched a new course on Marxism, Socialism and Communism.” The school stated to X“Facebook is denying access to our course on oppressive ideologies. Issues like this are usually resolved within 24 hours. @Meta ” he told us.
“The page was mistakenly removed but was restored prior to receiving this inquiry,” Mehta told Fox News Digital in a statement.
Hillsdale’s Facebook page, which reportedly had more than 300,000 followers, was taken down Monday after it launched a course on Cultural Marxism, which, according to a course description, critiqued its impact on “racial tensions, radical feminism, transgender ideology, open borders, fiscal irresponsibility, unequal protection of the law, and the loss of fundamental rights.”
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Facebook took down the page for a Hillsdale College online course on the same day that the school launched a course criticizing communism and Marxism. (Getty Images)
“The influence of Marx’s ideas is already evident in the history of the Soviet Union and China,” the course description continues, “but Marxism remains popular among those who shape our cultural, academic and political life, as well as among mass movements promoting equality and diversity. All human relationships are now defined in terms of the systematic oppression of one group by another.”
“Meta claims that an entire Hillsdale online course page was removed for nearly 100 hours because of an ad it mistakenly flagged on Facebook. Yet those same ads have been running unaltered for over a year! They’re not on the page that was removed! They’re on Hillsdale College’s main page. The timing of this censorship is particularly inopportune, coming shortly after we launched a new course on Marxism, Socialism and Communism,” Emily Stack Davis, executive director of media relations and communications at Hillsdale College, said in a statement to Fox News Digital.
She added, “Meta’s failure to provide a proper explanation is particularly distressing given its serious consequences. A third of enrollments in our online courses come through Facebook, and the majority of those come in the first few days of the course. We likely lost thousands of enrollments. More importantly, Meta has denied people access to a serious academic course on an oppressive ideology.”
Hillsdale College saw a 53% increase in applications as of April 2022. The conservative, private, Christian liberal arts college in Hillsdale, Michigan offers a classical education that is“Woke” ideology curriculum.
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“The page was mistakenly removed but was restored prior to receiving this inquiry,” Mehta told Fox News Digital in a statement. (Getty Images)
The move by Facebook’s parent company, Meta, comes after Vice President Kamala Harris announced on Wednesday that she would impose a “federal ban on food and grocery price gouging” if she takes office, in an effort to stop big companies from taking unfair advantage of consumers.
However, the idea was quickly criticized by media outlets such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, and Newsweek, which ran articles denounced the idea, with many critics likening the move to price control measures often implemented by communist governments.
Former President Donald Trump described the move as a “Soviet-style” economic policy.
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