Shaun King Briefly Suspended From Facebook After Posting Racist Email from Critic

Ken MeyerSep 9th, 2016, 5:30 pm
 

Shaun KingFacebook hasn’t been having the best couple of days recenty. First it trends a fake story about Megyn Kelly getting fired, then they temporarily ban an important historical image, now the social media site has apparently given Shaun King the boot after he reposted some profane hate-mail he recently got.

King is a well known figure in the #BlackLivesMatter community, and he frequently presents himself as an outspoken figure with his social justice columns for New York Daily News. On Friday afternoon, King tweeted out a notice that he has been locked out of his Facebook account for the rest of the day.

While it doesn’t appear on his Facebook account and might have already been deleted, it would seem that this is the email in question that King posted:

Back in 2015, King got in trouble on Twitter after he doxxed a CNN employee while he was ranting against the network. It is unclear whether a similar issue is at hand this time, though King said in his tweet that he kept out the sender’s email address when he posted the message on Facebook.

UPDATE – 5:38 p.m. ET: After several hours of his ban, King received a new message saying that his removal was accidental, and he has been granted his account again.

[Image via Facebook]

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