Brian looks like Abraham Brian looks like Abraham Lincoln is next on the chopping block the author of old Abe, historical novel about the former president, a great book says Facebook has been rejecting two ads promoting the book, claiming it violated its ban on advertising about social issues, elections or politics. Im not kidding, I dont think Abe is on the ballot. John Cribb is the author of old Abe and joins me. Now. How shocked are you? Your book is banned on Lincoln thanks for having me Brian. I know you are working on a book about Lincoln. I hope your book gets better treatment than mine has Brian, probably not yeah. We tried last December the publisher Republics book publishers decided to go, do a social media ads and made some very nice ads and submitted them to Facebook and Facebook turned them down, and we appealed and Facebook said no, and their reason is that this ad, apparently according to Facebook, violates the stand on social issues and politics which they put in place right before the presidential election.

This is absurd. A historical novel on Abe, Abraha, Lincoln Brian. They ban you and you think you figure out the reason why MIKE Pence essentially said it was the best book on Lincoln. He ever read Bill Bennett, the former conservative secretary of education, same thing, thats, our guess. We dont know, maybe the names MIKE Pence and Bill Bennett were enough to you know, to trip up some woke, algorithm or woke. Ad checker at Facebook were not sure its all absurd, but the serious point is this: is the kind of collateral damage you get when these big tech giants make these sweeping rules that effect millions and millions of people? What can and cant be said in the public scare like it or not? Social media is a big part of the social square. Now you will get more of this. The.