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# Accusing a political figure of facilitating child rape does not violate Facebook's community standards
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2018/07/accusing-a-political-figure-of-child-rape-does-not-violate-facebooks-community-standards/
- Published: 2018-07-24T21:32:17.000Z
- Updated: 2018-07-24T21:32:17.000Z
- Description: Facebook has community standards. They're just very, very low.
- Author: Adam Tinworth
- Tags: alt right media, Facebook, community standards

This is [one of those stories](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/charliewarzel/facebook-alex-jones-robertmueller-pedophile?ref=onemanandhisblog.com) where the standfirst tells you everything you need to know:

> Jones accused Mueller of participating in child rape and pantomimed shooting the special counsel. Facebook said the rant did not violate its community guidelines.

Yes, it's the Infowars/Facebook axis. For those playing catch-up, Facebook founder [Mark Zuckerberg has defended the conspiracy theory-centric site](https://www.recode.net/2018/7/18/17575158/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-interview-full-transcript-kara-swisher?ref=onemanandhisblog.com)'s continued presence on the network on the basis that people have the right to air opinions, even if those opinions are factually inaccurate.

However, he was clear that a threat of violence would be enough to see content removed:

> Then, there’s keeping the community safe, which I think is really important. We’re not gonna let people plan violence or attack each other or do bad things. Within this, those principles have real trade-offs and real tug on each other.

The interesting thing about this situation is that Infowars (peddler of [genuine snake oil](https://onemanandhisblog.com/2017/05/infowars-snake-oil-selling/)) and its head Alex Jones couched the threats of violence and accusations of aiding and abetting pedophilia in a [pantomime of a wild west style shoot out](https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2018/07/23/alex-jones-pantomimes-shooting-robert-mueller-youre-going-get-it-or-im-going-die-trying-bitch-get/220758?ref=onemanandhisblog.com). This feels like a deliberate provocation in light of the interview linked above, playing with the idea of violence against Mueller, without explicitly calling for it.

However, when accusing someone of pedophilia without a shred of evidence doesn't violate "community standards", you really should be asking yourself what your standards actually are…