As reported by The Western Journal,
in what many are calling the “Facebook purge,” Facebook announced on
Thursday that it removed over 800 political pages and accounts in a
clamp down on what the social media company calls “inauthentic behavior”
in the lead-up to the midterm elections next month.Facebook did not release the full list of pages impacted by this action. Upon being asked, Facebook refused to disclose the full list.
The following is a list of 185 pages that are currently unpublished on Facebook. Some of these have been confirmed by the owners as having been unpublished by Facebook as part of Thursday’s mass purge of pages, while others are currently unconfirmed as being part of the purge. However, all of these pages were still indexed by Google on October 12, 2018, which suggests they were recently active and thus removed recently.
This list of pages purged by Facebook contains nearly 60 million followers in total. Fan totals were recorded from the cache stored by Google.
To create this list, The Western Journal started with pages that had been confirmed as unpublished by Facebook, took the domains most often shared by those pages, and used Google search to find additional Facebook pages sharing those same domains. When new unpublished pages were found, the process was repeated until this list was generated.
