Laura Loomer confronts Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park after her permanent ban on May 2, 2019, labeling the platform's "dangerous individual" designation a violation of First Amendment rights. She accuses Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey of fascist censorship for silencing conservative journalists while allowing Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood to operate freely. Denied entry by security who cite trespassing, Loomer displays "Stop the Bias" shirts, references George Orwell's 1984, and waits for police, arguing that her exposure of left-wing bias endangers her life amidst radical threats. Ultimately, this standoff highlights the escalating conflict between free speech advocates and tech giants over content moderation policies. [Automatically generated summary]
Alright guys, so as you know I was permanently banned on Facebook and so I drove to Facebook headquarters and we're heading over to Facebook to talk to them about why they decided to ban me.
We're almost there guys.
We're going to Facebook because Facebook decided that they just want to infringe on everybody's rights, right?
They want to infringe on every conservative's rights on the internet and they don't think that conservatives should be allowed to be on the internet.
And what Facebook did yesterday, right, is they branded me as a terrorist essentially, saying that I'm a dangerous person because, well, I expose the left and I post facts about Islam and, well, I'm a conservative.
Yesterday, I was permanently banned from Facebook and Instagram, and I was labeled as a dangerous individual, a dangerous person, simply because I'm a conservative.
Simply because I'm a conservative.
I've been banned from every single social media platform in this country and labeled as a terrorist.
But meanwhile, actual terrorist organizations like Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood are still on Facebook, right?
And that's that's then why don't you call someone who I can speak with?
Why don't you call someone who I can speak with?
Because I want to know why I'm banned on Facebook and Instagram.
I want to know why Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood are still giving, have access to your platform, but then Mark Zuckerberg has to brand me as a terrorist.
I'm a terrorist.
Do I look like a terrorist to you?
I'm a conservative.
I'm a conservative journalist, and I have a right to my free speech.
So why don't you call someone, since you're the receptionist here, and have someone come downstairs and talk to me about why I'm banned on Facebook and Instagram.
unidentified
I'm not going to be able to help you as long as you're speaking to me in that manner.
If you'd like to place a complaint, there's a form on the tablet there that you're more than welcome to fill out.
No matter how loud you get, no matter how rude you are, no matter how aggressive you are, that's not going to change the process.
No, everything's not okay because I'm a journalist and here in America we have something called the Constitution and a First Amendment right.
And Mark Zuckerberg and all of your little liberal employees here in Silicon Valley have decided that me and my colleagues, we don't deserve to have free speech.
And you guys are now endangering my life by labeling me as a dangerous individual, a terrorist essentially, according to your own standards.
And I'm not allowed to even, you know, speak my mind.
I'm not allowed to speak my mind freely here in America.
So I would like to know if you guys are going to designate me as a dangerous individual, then you should have someone come downstairs and talk to me.
I would love to know why you think I shouldn't have a voice in America, but then terrorist organizations like Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood should be allowed to spear hatred.
Why is that?
Why is that?
Do you guys have anybody who works here who answers any questions, or do you just delete everybody who you don't agree with?
unidentified
Okay, so I understand your frustration.
Unfortunately, it's a closed campus.
We don't allow media on site without prior authorization.
So I'm not going to go through your little process of filling out forms anymore.
I'm not going to let you guys continue to endanger my life by calling me essentially a terrorist.
Let me show you something.
Let me show you what they did.
Let me show you what they did.
Let me show you so that you know how serious this situation is.
Do you know that I am currently banned on every single social media platform, every single social media platform, and I'm a journalist here in America?
Do you know what Facebook did yesterday?
Facebook decided that they were going to make me, Mila Yiannopoulos, Paul Joseph Watson, Alex Jones, dangerous individuals.
Let's see what their description for dangerous individuals and organizations is.
Policy rationale.
In an effort to prevent and disrupt real-world harm, we do not allow any organizations or individuals that proclaim a violent mission or are engaged in violence from having a presence on Facebook.
This includes organizations or individuals involved in the following: terrorist activity, organized hate, mass or serial murder, human trafficking, organized violence, or criminal activity.
We also remove content that expresses support or praise for groups, leaders, or individuals involved in these activities.
Do I look like a terrorist to you?
Do I look like a terrorist to you?
Do I look like a mass murderer or a serial killer to you?
I don't even, I don't have a weapon.
I've never committed a crime in my life.
Okay.
I have never committed a crime in my life, and yet you guys have designated me as a terrorist.
You guys have designated me as a terrorist.
unidentified
Well, me personally, I'm just trying to provide you customer service and give you the best route to go about it.
So a couple of options I gave you is fill out a support form.
So the second option, I mean, if you don't want to fill out a support form, go through our traditional customer support step, there's nothing I can do further to assist you, right?
Two, we don't allow media on campus without pre-registering.
So at this point, I'm going to have to ask you to leave campus.
No, you don't understand my frustration because you're not banned from making an income.
I bet you that you're allowed to have a bank account.
I bet you that you're not banned on PayPal.
I bet you that when you go outside, your life isn't endangered by psychopath leftists and liberals in Silicon Valley who are telling everybody that you're some Nazi or white supremacist.
You don't understand how I feel.
Nobody here knows how I feel.
unidentified
Unfortunately, based on the law and based on our policy, you are trespassing right now.
All right, we're filling out a customer service report form right now, because Facebook has decided to designate me as a dangerous person, a dangerous terrorist.
I mean, honestly, the most powerful tech company in the world doesn't even have a fucking customer service department.
Well, I'm having to fill out this ridiculous form right here that doesn't even work.
And basically, Facebook has totally violated my rights and endangered my life by calling me a dangerous individual, which according to their standards is a violent terrorist.
And so I'd like to speak with someone about that.
I'd like to speak with someone.
These people are just violating everyone's rights.
They have actual terrorist organizations like Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood on their platforms, but then they are banning conservative journalists and making it so people can't exercise their freedom of speech.
And one of these days, people are just going to, you know, not tolerate it.
It's getting to a boiling point in this country.
Let's see.
Please enter your information.
Okay, so this is my message.
Facebook designated me as a dangerous person and permanently banned me on May 2nd, 2019.
Actual terrorist organizations like Hamas and Muslim Brotherhood are on your platform.
Aren't terrorists dangerous people or only conservatives?
That's what I would really love to know.
So I want to know, since Jack Dorsey is claiming that dangerous individuals are not allowed to be on their platform anymore, when are they going to take Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood off of their platform?
Since, you know, Hamas in their charter, it says that their goal, we're going to submit right now, okay?
Their goal is to kill Jewish people and eradicate the state of Israel.
Those people are allowed to have Facebook accounts, but if you're a conservative Jew like myself, you get banned.
And not only do you get banned, but you get banned on Holocaust Remembrance Day.
So yesterday, yesterday, Mark Zuckerberg not only banned me, but he accused me of being a dangerous person next to that vile Jew hater, Louis Farrakhan, who was also banned.
And he did it on Holocaust Remembrance Day.
And why did he do that?
Because Mark Zuckerberg is a self-hating Jew.
And these people here in Silicon Valley, these people, these people who work at Facebook and places like Twitter are actual Nazis.
Their tactics are fascist.
And they accuse conservatives and Trump supporters of being fascists and Nazis simply because we support President Trump and we support free speech.
But if you go against their left-wing agenda, if you post facts, if you're against terrorism, or if you're a proud conservative Jewish woman like myself, you'll get banned.
You'll get banned and sentenced to the digital gulag because you're not allowed to have free speech.
There's no freedom of speech allowed at Facebook.
There's no freedom of speech allowed at Twitter.
There's no freedom of speech allowed here in America.
And nothing.
This is only going to get worse, okay, you guys.
This situation is only going to further escalate.
And more conservatives and more people in this country are continuing to have their rights violated by these Nazis in Silicon Valley if President Trump doesn't do something about this.
If President Trump doesn't start to do something about this and actually fight back against this, we are going to lose everything in this country.
Because the First Amendment of this country, our constitutional rights are worth fighting for.
And if the police have to be called, then so be it, okay?
Call the police.
Call the police.
I don't want to live in a world where I have to fill out a form in a digital gulag to find out whether or not I'm going to be able to speak again or voice an opinion.
Okay.
I don't want to have to come to Silicon Valley, which is controlled by left-wing fascist billionaires like Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey and have to fill out their stupid little forms to debate whether or not me existing as a Jewish conservative in America is allowed on social media.
Meanwhile, they have groups like Antifa, which have been designated as a domestic terrorist organization by the Department of State.
They have Hamas, a terrorist organization that's killing Jews.
They have the Muslim Brotherhood, a terrorist organization, which calls for an Islamic caliphate and the eradication of all non-Muslims.
Okay, those people are not dangerous individuals, but me, right?
A conservative Jewish woman who voted for President Donald Trump, I'm dangerous.
I'm dangerous.
I'm not allowed to have a Twitter.
I'm not allowed to have a Facebook.
I'm not allowed to have an Uber, Uber Eats.
I'm banned on Lyft.
I'm banned on Venmo.
GoFundMe, Medium, Teespring, Instagram.
Every single damn platform, every single social media platform I am banned on.
I'm not even allowed to make an income on PayPal or Venmo simply because I'm a conservative.
I'm going to wait and talk to the police because I would like to actually file a criminal complaint against Facebook because not only are you guys denying me my First Amendment right, but you're endangering my life by designating me as a dangerous individual and a terrorist.
And I don't think you understand how grave of a situation that is when I can't make a living in America because I'm banned.
Are you guys, is all your Facebook security going to protect me when some radical member of Antifa or some radical Islamic individual decides to kill me because Facebook has called me a terrorist?
Are you going to protect me, Andrew?
I don't think so.
I don't think Facebook security is really going to protect me when somebody, some psycho left-winger who is inspired by all of these radical left-wing reporters from Daily Beast and Right Wing Watch and SPLC and all the left-wing media like CNN and people like Oliver Darcy falsely accusing me and Alex Jones and Paul Joseph Watson and Milo Yiannopoulos of being Nazis and white supremacists simply because we're conservative.
What are they going to do when somebody shoots us and kills us?
What are they going to do?
What are these people going to do?
Is Facebook security going to be here to protect me?
And unfortunately, unfortunately, we are in a position in this country where people like Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey have more power than President Donald Trump.
They have more power than President Donald Trump.
Because if President Donald Trump had more power than Jack Dorsey and Mark Zuckerberg, something would already be done about all of this bias.
Something would already be done.
And I wouldn't have had my civil liberties violated.
Okay.
I would be able to make a living here in America.
And they don't even want to have a discussion.
You know, they call themselves liberals, right?
They should be open to dialogue.
But I came here.
Okay.
I am not a violent person.
I do not have a criminal record.
I don't have a weapon on me.
I simply asked to speak to somebody.
I simply asked to speak to somebody at Facebook about why they have designated me as a dangerous individual.
Okay, I have asked to speak to somebody and nobody wants to come downstairs.
This is 1984.
1984 was supposed to be a warning, not to how-to manual.
And now as I stand here in the middle of Facebook here in Silicon Valley, California, the police are on their way.
And the police are on their way to arrest me, probably, right?
Or to detain me simply because I came today to take a stand for free speech and to fight for my First Amendment right as a journalist, to fight back and take a stand against these fascists here, these fascists here at Facebook, who don't believe that conservatives and supporters of President Donald Trump deserve to have a platform, deserve to have a voice.
And I am not, I am not going to fill out a, I am not going to fill out a form on a tablet.
I am not going to walk to Silicon Valley and fill out a form and bow down to these technological tyrants here in Silicon Valley every single time I want to speak.
Like, if their signs here at Facebook aren't even a sign of the fact that they are totally in bed with the leftists and the Democrats, then I don't know what is.
Look at this.
unidentified
Take care of Muslim, black, women, femme, queer, Latino, native, immigrant, POC, trans, disabled, incarcerated, LGBTQ.
I mean, the bias in this country is out of control.
I want to know when members of Congress are going to do something about it.
You know, I voted for President Trump.
I've supported President Trump since day one.
And at 25 years old, my life is being totally ruined and totally destroyed by people like Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey, who have tons of money.
These people are billionaires, and they have acquired so much power through social media.
They have so much information on so many people on this planet to the point where they can now decide whether or not somebody exists.
I think it is disgusting.
I think it is an abomination that two billionaires in Silicon Valley have the power to decide whether or not somebody deserves to have a voice simply because of their politics.
You know that I never once violated the Facebook Terms of Service ever.
I never once did anything violent.
I never advocated for violence against anybody.
And yet Mark Zuckerberg has the audacity to defame me on a massive level in front of the entire world by issuing a statement and saying that Laura Loomer, Milo Liannopoulos, Alex Jones, Paul Joseph Watson are dangerous individuals.
What exactly about us is dangerous, Mark?
I would like to know.
Is it the fact that I expose the left?
Is it the fact that I warn people about the horrors and the truth of Sharia law?
What exactly is it that's so dangerous about me?
You know, you know what, Mark, I'll agree with you.
I guess I am a dangerous individual because my reporting and my existence is dangerous to your left-wing agenda.
Okay?
It's dangerous to these lying liberals who want to do everything in their power to undermine President Trump and his presidency, our constitutional republic.
And then they endangered my life by designating a program.
unidentified
Okay, so I'm going to let you know right now.
So before I escalate, you can leave the property without it escalating, without them pressing charges.
So what it comes down to is you can go right now.
It's a private property.
They have a choice to do if they want you here or not.
We're letting you know that they don't want you on their property.
I know they don't.
They definitely have to.
So you can go on your own accord and do what you need to do, or we're going to have to talk with them and see if they want to pursue prosecution, which is one of the options.
I asked why I've been designated as a dangerous individual and a terrorist when actual terrorist organizations like Hamas and Muslim Brotherhood are on your platform.
Yeah, when you guys have my contact information, I mean I had a Facebook account, so let's not pretend like you don't have to.
Specifically, did you have your phone number?
Yeah, I probably didn't.
Then you're good to go for today.
So who's going to get back to me?
Like, how's this going to go?
We're from our customer support team contact.
When?
Can't tell you that.
Well, I mean, that's a similar really well.
It's on a first-come, first-served basis, and there's.
A first-com-first-served basis.
You guys have billions of users.
You guys have like hundreds of millions, if not a billion users.
I'm going to be waiting for the rest of my life.
Do I deserve to be silenced for the rest of my life?
I'm 25 years old.
Do I deserve to not have a voice and not make a single penny for the rest of my life?
You are thinking of me.
We're going to contact you.
That's what we can do for you today.
So Facebook is going to contact me.
Yes.
When?
Well, maybe you guys can.
I would leave, but I would like somebody, obviously, except you appear, to let me know when.
I don't think that's an improper request.
I think that I'm being very basic and very respectful.
Well, I'm not going to resist if you guys walk me out, but I'm like refusing to leave until they're in the middle of the day.
unidentified
We have to go ahead and get that process going.
They can touch base with you outside of this building.
So I'm being banned from Facebook yesterday.
I'm banned from the city.
You're being told that you have to leave the premises because this is private property.
And they have that.
They have that right to do that as well because it's your private property and they're choosing to do so by asking you to lead through those doors, okay?
So, like you said, if you're willing to walk out, let's go ahead and just fix this.
I'm sure he's getting the contact number that you're trying to get a hold of right now.
But we need a compromise on both sides here, okay?
All right.
Well, I mean, if that's the case, then I just have to leave like a little present.
And if you're watching this, President Trump, please do something.
Because just as I told you when I confronted members of Congress and Jack Dorsey when he perjured himself in September of last year, I said, please do something before it's too late.
unidentified
Because all of your supporters are going to be silenced before 2020.
Matt, people.
He's gone.
He's done.
Who do I leave this floor?
Can you give us the turn over for me?
We can't accept that.
Don't worry about that, but I need that.
All right.
Well, I'm just going to leave it here for you, okay?
I cannot believe that these executives have become more powerful than the President of the United States himself, that they are just censoring and silencing conservatives at the click of a button.
With a click of a button, your entire life can be over, okay?
Your entire existence can be eradicated from the internet if you are deemed a dangerous person, okay?
You know, when George Orwell, when George Orwell wrote 1984, it was supposed to be a warning.
It was supposed to be a warning to let us know what it was like if Big Brother ever got so much control that they could control people's lives.
But here we are in 2019, okay?
And 1984 is no longer just a warning, okay?
It has become a how-to manual for these fascists in Silicon Valley, like Jack Dorsey and Mark Zuckerberg, to silence and ban conservatives, to disenfranchise conservatives like myself and supporters of President Donald Trump so that we can no longer voice our support, our opinions, or our conservative values.
So it's a really sad day in America.
It's a sad day in America when your entire livelihood and your entire ability to function in society and to be heard now revolves around social media because these companies have so much power.
It's a really sad day in America when you contact representatives on Capitol Hill, when you reach out to the President of the United States and your voice just goes, your requests just go completely unanswered, you know?
Look at all this police.
Look at all the security, you guys.
This is the reaction.
This is what it is.
You know, I'm not a dangerous person, okay?
I'm a thought criminal is what I am.
I'm a thought criminal because I dared to have an original opinion, because I dared to be a conservative in America, because I dared to have a voice and to voice my opinions and to go against the liberal agenda in America.
And as a result, I am now the most banned woman in America, the most banned woman in America, literally banned on every single social media platform.
And if I ask to be heard, if I simply ask to be heard, I am greeted with a barrage of police officers who threaten to escort me off the property and arrest me if I just ask to be heard.
unidentified
Okay, ma'am, you need to be out of the proxy, ma'am.
So not only am I banned on Facebook, I'm banned on Instagram and classified as a dangerous person, a terrorist in America, but I'm now not allowed to even come to Facebook to voice opposition to being silenced, okay?