“Why is it that these mistakes only happens to conservatives?” Fox News host Trace Gallagher asks Dennis Quaid, the star of the upcoming film Reagan. Until yesterday, Facebook had applied restrictions on any promotion of the film, which it later attributed to erroneous algorithms that, for some reason, flagged any content that mentioned former president Ronald Reagan. Facebook claimed to have resolved the issue, but Quaid’s not buying the explanation.
“The last time I looked,” Quaid jokes, “Reagan hasn’t been on the ballot in forty years. Not only that,” he added, “he’s not even eligible to run. having served two terms.” Not to mention, of course, that Reagan’s been dead for two decades:
So why is Facebook restricting content that mentions a famous historical figure like the American president that ended the Cold War? Do they restrict promotion…
