{"id":264957,"date":"2019-01-08T07:16:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-08T14:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1002950"},"modified":"2019-01-08T07:16:00","modified_gmt":"2019-01-08T14:16:00","slug":"facebook-removes-page-dedicated-to-discrediting-r-kellys-accusers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/facebook-removes-page-dedicated-to-discrediting-r-kellys-accusers\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Removes Page Dedicated to Discrediting R. Kelly&#8217;s Accusers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"42.278617710583\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"32\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2017924\/rs_634x1024-171024101221-634-r.kelly-performing.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"R. Kelly\" alt=\"R. Kelly\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Jason Merritt\/Getty Images for BET<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"24.270482603816\">\n<p>Not on Facebook&#8217;s watch.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Just hours after news of a Facebook page taking aim at R. Kelly&#8217;s accusers arose, the social networking site removed the page in the name of community standards.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Page violated our Community Standards and has been removed,&#8221; a Facebook spokesperson said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RMac18\/status\/1082420418848288768\" target=\"_blank\">statement<\/a>, shared by some news outlets. &#8220;We do not tolerate bullying or sharing someone&#8217;s private contact information and take action on content that violates our policies as soon as we&#8217;re aware.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A link to the page, titled &#8220;Surviving Lies,&#8221; now leads to Facebook&#8217;s error page reading, &#8220;Sorry, this content isn&#8217;t available right now.\u00a0The link you followed may have expired, or the page may only be visible to an audience you&#8217;re not in.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RMac18\/status\/1082356057458892800\" target=\"_blank\">screenshots taken<\/a> before it was removed, the page was running ads with the intent of discrediting women who have come forward against the singer.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"53.564935064935\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"2.8441558441558\">\n<p>&#8220;What they don&#8217;t want you to know about the #Rkelly accusers,&#8221; one ad <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RMac18\/status\/1082356057458892800\" target=\"_blank\">read<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"video-int-txt-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"33.799696509863\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"12.789074355083\">\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2019\/01\/07\/r-kelly-expose-discredit-accusers-new-facebook-page-website-surviving-lifetime-docuseries\/\" target=\"_blank\">TMZ<\/a>, the page also featured a video and photos aimed at\u00a0<strong>Asante McGee<\/strong>, one of the women who appeared in Lifetime&#8217;s <em>Surviving R. Kelly<\/em> and came forward with allegations against the star. Per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/facebook-r-kelly-accusers_us_5c344ce0e4b05d4e96bb938b\" target=\"_blank\">The Huffington Post<\/a>, the page also honed in on <strong>Faith Rodgers<\/strong>, who also appeared in the documentary and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/938030\/r-kelly-sued-for-alleged-sexual-battery-false-imprisonment-and-failing-to-disclose-std\" target=\"_blank\">filed a lawsuit against the star<\/a> last year for alleged\u00a0sexual battery, false imprisonment and concealing an STD. R. Kelly has previously denied all allegations of misconduct and, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2019\/01\/03\/r-kelly-lawyer-lifetime-surviving-kelly-documentary-threatens-lawsuit\/\" target=\"_blank\">TMZ<\/a>, threatened to sue Lifetime if it aired the documentary. It debuted last week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear who was behind the page. R. Kelly&#8217;s manager had no comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1002950\/facebook-removes-page-dedicated-to-discrediting-r-kelly-s-accusers?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jason Merritt\/Getty Images for BET Not on Facebook&#8217;s watch.\u00a0 Just hours after news of a Facebook page taking aim at R. Kelly&#8217;s accusers arose, the social networking site removed the page in the name of community standards.\u00a0 &#8220;The Page violated our Community Standards and has been removed,&#8221; a Facebook spokesperson said in a statement, shared [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-264957","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 06:18:58","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}