Thread by @RisingTideNA

Yesterday, Wet’suwet’en frontline leaders and solidarity activists (us!) organizing against the Coastal GasLink pipeline along with hundreds of climate activists were blocked from @Facebook due to a May 7 event targeting @KKR_Co, a major funder of the controversial pipeline.

Some accounts have been reinstated after many messages to @Facebook, but many remain blocked from using the platform for essential organizing. The social media giant has NOT explained why this happened on such a scale or why we’ve been targeted.

We want action and answers now.

When the ban started, Facebook claimed activists violated its terms of service around intellectual property guidelines and accounts would be blocked for 3 days.

Here is what we know:

There was an online action planned for 9/21 against @KKR_Co’s funding of the CGL pipeline in response to their silence to the 230k+ emails, calls, and tweets they've received this year. Not having access to FB hindered our organizing. The event is now 9/28 bit.ly/3iRxgqC

We demand to know if @KKR_Co instigated this targeted mass banning by filing an unfounded IP complaint about the May 7th event, and what process @Facebook used to validate the claim. Facebook enabled mass censorship of hundreds of voices. We want action and answers now.

What’s next? We’ll be sending an official complaint to Facebook demanding answers. In the meantime, please message or tweet at @KKR_Co now and demand they respect Indigenous Rights by divesting from the Coastal GasLink pipeline project now. actionnetwork.org/letters/messag… #ShutDownKKR

Corporations like @Facebook shouldn’t have the power to silence a whole movement. This is very dangerous territory.

Corporations with such reach, wealth, and allegiance to upholding unaccountable profit-first machines like @KKR_Co must be held accountable and dismantled.

And -- remember that although these corporations, like @Facebook and @KKR_Co, can try to ban and silence individuals, this movement is too powerful to stop!

Join us. RT.

#WetsuwetenStrong #ShutDownKKR