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Facebook Blocks Cuba's Mariela Castro After Post Urging Hurricane Aid
Published 19 September 2017
Facebook later apologized for the action, claiming that an employee had eliminated her account in error.
Facebook blocked the profile of Mariela Castro, director of the Cuban National Center for Sexual Education and daughter of President Raul Castro after she published information of a bank account created to receive aid after the destruction of Hurricane Irma in Cuba.
Mariela Castro said her post and her account were blocked after she posted the number of the bank account used to receive aid. "An urgent announcement," she wrote on her Twitter account, linking to a report of the said measures by Facebook.
Castro also questioned if the network would block "all the Cuban press" that spread the bank account information, denouncing that the social network had blocked her account due to "community guidelines."
More:
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Facebook-Blocks-Cubas-Mariela-Castro-After-Post-Urging-Hurricane-Aid-20170919-0017.html
