An admin for one of the biggest right-wing Facebook groups DM'd me with his impressions/experience with Facebook moderation and censorship (and gave me permission to post this thread). RW Facebook was big in 2016/17.
The big crackdown began in summer 2017; it did not take the form of bans for hate speech but rather all publicly-known admin accounts getting suspended for no reason, leading to the pages disappearing.
This included device bans which permanently destroyed most of the pages.
The admin purges with no justification were more effective than the page deletions, in part because normie conservatives rallied against censorship but couldn't really grasp or understand the implications of extremely opaque account removals.
Apparently, deleting a post in the thread delinks it, so here's where it continues.
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