How White Separatists Disable Native American Facebook Accounts

According to Facebook, the social media network is supposed to be “a community where people use their authentic identities.” That means signing up with the name you were born with or have adopted in real life. Facebook says that it uses an authentic names policy because people are much more likely to feel accountable for their social media behavior if they’re identified.

But Facebook’s policy is easily exploitable: Any user can potentially cause someone else’s account to be suspended, altered or permanently shut down simply by reporting their name as fake. As we’ve recently reported, Facebook has been questioning authentic Native American names since at least 2009.

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