Saturday, Halsey News spoke with Jeremy Oliver, a social media consultant, who informed us that he had been banned from using Facebook for 30 days over posts about hand signals that Facebook had deemed racist.

“I was banned from Facebook for reposting a Twitter post about hand signals,” Jeremy Olive said.

FACEBOOK:

TWITTER GOT HIM AT THE SAME TIME

“I am suspended from Twitter for not being able to verify my phone number because I changed providers and numbers 8 months ago. I’ve provided every proof including my new number email and photo ID.

Twitter will still allow me to run my candidates page and the movie page but won’t reinstate my personal page.

Facebook is different, I am blocked from all of the pages I run on Facebook,” Oliver said.

AT THE CENTER OF THE DRAMA

Be on the lookout for people with the 👍 emoji in their Twitter names. White supremacists are now using this as a code symbol for their bigotry. #Resist #StopTheHate pic.twitter.com/0CeeIZqeiJ — Carl Winkleton (@CarlWinkleton) April 10, 2019

Others responded on Twitter:

Say what you want, bigot, but based off of your avi, I'm fairly confident that my non-binary son would decimate you in a beauty pageant. https://t.co/YMpKaLTXnt — Carl Winkleton (@CarlWinkleton) April 13, 2019

Oliver picked up the Twitter post and posted it on his personal Facebook page, responding to the Twitter post made by Carl Winkleton.

According to his Twitter account, Winkleton self identifies as, “Professor of Anthropology, Fighter for the less privileged, LGBTQIA+ advocate, Husband to a loving wife and father to a non-binary son. # Resist # StopTheHate”

Winkleton started the Twitter account in Aug of 2015, and has 31 posts which begin Sept 2018 and then jump to 2019 for the “Racist Thumbs up” campaign.

Winkleton’s Twitter Account

However, Winkleton is very powerful. The following is Oliver’s post on his personal Facebook page, with Winkleton’s Twitter post.

Facebook objected to the following, the sketch of the hand signals:

Oliver’s Facebook Page

“This was my post BOLO but with both pictures… they only flagged one of the 2 pictures in my post the rest of the post is still on my wall,” Oliver told Halsey News.

DOES THE PLAN TO ERADICATE LIKES ON SOCIAL MEDIA BY CONSERVATIVES STARTS LIKE THIS?

I was eating breakfast this morning when my 9 year old son came into the kitchen and asked me, "Dad, how are we ever going to dismantle the patriarchy when we have a monster in the White House who perpetuates a culture of toxic masculinity?" I was blown away and so proud of him. — Carl Winkleton (@CarlWinkleton) April 13, 2019

Apparently white supremacists and other racists are starting to use the Thumbs up emoji as a symbol of hatred Please be aware when using a Thumbs up Emoji since it refers to the #Racist #whitesupremacy "14 words". Time to stop hating and give the world more #love pic.twitter.com/HI9SWOs22Z — Marco020 (@Marco02012) April 10, 2019

Marco2020, who appears to be the origins of the sketched hand signals, is an account started in April of 2019 with 6 tweets.

Marco2020 Twitter account

However, the problem is that “thumbs up” is a universal gesture as these tweets show:

OLIVER RUNS THE SOCIAL MEDIA FOR THE MOVIE UNPLANNED

“I’ve been blocked exactly 30 days before the last two elections and I run social media accounts for political candidates and conservative movies. I feel they are trying to silence conservatives prior to the Muller report is released,” Oliver told Halsey News.