Facebook Suspends Lil B for Hate Speech

referring to Lil B has been banned from posting on his formal Facebook page for thirty days, as Motherboard reports. A rep for Facebook has approved which the rapper's suspension was because of his violation of the media platform's hate speech policies. Lil B typically Utilizes his Facebook page much like his Twitter, posting multiple times a day to ask questions, make announcements, address social issues, and more. The offending posts have reportedly been deleted; while Lil B speculated which it's because he was "talking about white people," the exact content of the posts is unclear. Pitchfork has reached out to reps for Facebook for more information.

Lil B tells Facebook pending his account for "talking about white people"

ADVERTISEMENT"Found out Facebook banned me for month becuase I was talking about white people," he wrote on Monday on Twitter. A representative for Facebook approved which the rapper's account had been pending next a violation of the company's hate speech policies. This is not the premier time Lil B has been banned from Facebook. In 2014, he tweeted, ""WOW HAHAHAA AYYY YALL FACEBOOK JUST BANNED ME!!! I GOT OVER 500k LIKES."Representatives for Lil B and Facebook weren't immediately obtainable for comment.

Facebook approves it Has Banned Rapper Lil B for 'Hate Speech'

As it stated in But Facebook has this time banned the Berkeley, California rapper for the following month, temporarily cutting drop his substantial on-line presence. A Facebook representative approved to Motherboard which Lil B has been banned from the platform for month for violating the site's hate speech policies. On Sunday, Lil B tweeted which he was banned for "talking about white people" on the site. Lil B has been on a recent media tear discussing, in blunt terms, complex issues about race in America. Requests for comment to Lil B over Twitter and email were not immediately answered.

The Facebook Posts which Got Lil B pending for Violating the Site's Hate Speech Rules

Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for CoachellaLil B, a rapper better known for his Dadaist albums like Black Ken and Rain in England, received a 30-day suspension on Facebook for violating the site's "hate speech" policies, that the media website approved to Motherboard on Tuesday. I texted Lil B on Tuesday night about the incident, and he sent me a monitor bullet of the posts that Facebook deemed offensive. AdvertisementHe told he wrote the posts in response to the shooting in Las Vegas. It gives users broader latitude the time they write about "subsets" of prevented categories. Facebook has too faced controversy suspending black activists like Ijeoma Oluo and Shaun King.

Facebook Suspends Lil B for Hate Speech