Social media is a vital component in modern activism and advancing social movements. When powerful social media websites such as Facebook allow themselves to be facilitators of various social movements and be used as a means of activism, there is a societal obligation on them to protect these groups and let free intellectual discourse occur.



There have been many recent instances of large and powerful online groups sending out false reports of violence against other groups, and succeeding in having these groups unjustly taken down, effectively skewing the naturally-occurring political trajectory of our country in their favor by infringing on other people's voices. It is incredibly apparent that there is little to no investigation done into these false claims before these groups are successfully taken down, and this needs to be changed.