We review products independently, but we may earn affiliate commissions from buying links on this page. Terms of use. Facebook is taking down any content, including ads, that claim to reveal the identity of the whistleblower who sparked the impeachment inquiry into President Trump. Conservative news site Breitbart was first to notice the take downs after sharing articles on Facebook containing the whistleblower's alleged name. On Wednesday evening, administrators for Breitbart's Facebook page began receiving notifications about the content removals. According to CNN, Google's YouTube also plans on removing videos that mention the whistleblower's potential name. The video-sharing platform plans on using both computer algorithms and human reviewers to take down the content. The crackdown will likely spark conservatives to accuse the platforms of political censorship. But in Facebook's case, the company says its merely enforcing the social network's rules. "Any mention of the potential whistleblower's name violates our coordinating harm policy, which prohibits content 'outing of witness, informant, or activist,'" a company spokesperson said in a statement. "We are removing any and all mentions of the potential whistleblower's name and will revisit this decision should their name be widely published in the media or used by public figures in debate." The last part to Facebook's statement suggests the ban may not last for long. For weeks now, the suspected identity of the whistleblower, a US intelligence official, has been circulating on social media among some conservative news outlets and users. On Wednesday, President Trump's son, Donald Trump Jr., amplified the subject even more by tweeting a Breitbart article discussing the whisteblower's supposed identity. That post now has more than 15,000 retweets. Days earlier, the President himself called for the anonymous US official to be unmasked. On Facebook, at least one group has even been bought a political ad linking to an article that contains the whisteblower's alleged identity. However, the ad is no longer active. Despite Facebook's attempts to take down the content, you can still find some mention of the whistleblower's alleged name circulating among user posts. PCMag was able to find them by using Facebook's search function.
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We review products independently, but we may earn affiliate commissions from buying links on this page. Terms of use. Facebook is taking down any content, including ads, that claim to reveal the identity of the whistleblower who sparked the impeachment inquiry into President Trump. Conservative news site Breitbart was first to notice the take downs after sharing articles on Facebook containing the whistleblower's alleged name. On Wednesday evening, administrators for Breitbart's Facebook page began receiving notifications about the content removals. According to CNN, Google's YouTube also plans on removing videos that mention the whistleblower's potential name. The video-sharing platform plans on using both computer algorithms and human reviewers to take down the content. The crackdown will likely spark conservatives to accuse the platforms of political censorship. But in Facebook's case, the company says its merely enforcing the social network's rules. "Any mention of the potential whistleblower's name violates our coordinating harm policy, which prohibits content 'outing of witness, informant, or activist,'" a company spokesperson said in a statement. "We are removing any and all mentions of the potential whistleblower's name and will revisit this decision should their name be widely published in the media or used by public figures in debate." The last part to Facebook's statement suggests the ban may not last for long. For weeks now, the suspected identity of the whistleblower, a US intelligence official, has been circulating on social media among some conservative news outlets and users. On Wednesday, President Trump's son, Donald Trump Jr., amplified the subject even more by tweeting a Breitbart article discussing the whisteblower's supposed identity. That post now has more than 15,000 retweets. Days earlier, the President himself called for the anonymous US official to be unmasked. On Facebook, at least one group has even been bought a political ad linking to an article that contains the whisteblower's alleged identity. However, the ad is no longer active. Despite Facebook's attempts to take down the content, you can still find some mention of the whistleblower's alleged name circulating among user posts. PCMag was able to find them by using Facebook's search function.