The North Carolina sisters known as "Diamond and Silk" have revealed in a series of tweets (see below) that Facebook has determined their content and brand are "unsafe to the community" without a fuller explanation, and in a decision that the social media network says is final.
This development occurs as CEO Mark Zuckerberg is set to testify before Congress about the rampant harvesting of personal data and privacy violations that has prompted demands across the ideological spectrum for Facebook to be regulated like a public utility.
Diamond and Silk, former Democrats who climbed aboard the Trump train primarily because of the then-candidate's economic message, have created a huge following with a series of irreverent YouTube videos. They first achieved prominence in that regard after they rhetorically fired back at Megyn Kelly for accusing Donald Trump of misogyny at the famoust August 2015 GOP presidential debate. Google-owned YouTube has since de-monetized their channel. They also appeared with the GOP standard-bearer (himself a former Democrat and independent) at campaign rallies, The American Mirror noted.
Lynette "Diamond" Hardaway and Rochelle "Silk" Richardson claim that the back and forth with Facebook started about six months ago when they noticed that traffic on their Facebook page, which they created in December 2014, dropped precipitously, and millions of followers were no longer receiving notifications.
On Twitter, they called out Facebook for allegedly engaging in deliberate censorship and discrimination and wondered what could be unsafe about two black women expressing views in support of President Trump.
