Actor Dennis Quaid said that Facebook has been “throttling advertising” for his upcoming film, “Reagan,” due out in theaters in late August.
In a letter sent to Newsweek, Quaid said, “Facebook is once again censoring the free flow of ideas, deciding what’s best for us to see and hear; only this time it’s throttling advertising and promotion for my movie about Ronald Reagan.”
“Like the old Soviet Union—are we turning into a country of tech oligarchs who control the platform of groupthink to silence the individual or ‘other’ groups?” he continued, noting that no one at Facebook had even seen the movie yet.
In addition to Quaid’s complaints on the issue, director of digital marketing Eric McClellan sent a letter directly to Mark Zuckerberg. In the letter, he cited a particularly “egregious” example of Facebook’s attempt to quell their advertising.
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