Facebook Unblocks Photo of Santa Kneeling before Baby Jesus after LifeSiteNews Report Goes Viral

Doug Mainwaring : Dec 7, 2018
LifeSiteNews.com

The social networking giant has also banned many LifeSiteNews' pro-life ads, deeming them too "political" because they showed pictures of pregnant mothers, ultrasounds, preborn babies, and the tiny feet of an infant child held in her mother's hands.

[Lifesitenews.com] Facebook is no longer censoring an image of Santa Claus kneeling before the Baby Jesus that it had deemed "violent or graphic content" after a report on LifeSiteNews about the matter went viral [this week]. (Image: Jennifer Beahm Crawford-Facebook/via LifeSiteNews)

Facebook had obscured the picture, explaining that the "photo was automatically covered so you can decide if you want to see it."

Users then had to click on a button to uncover the photo. Facebook users are now able to freely share the image without any additional step required to view the image.

After LifeSiteNews wrote ... about Facebook's condemnation of the picture, the story went viral. In less than 18 hours, the story was shared on Facebook over 42,000 times by LifeSiteNews readers and had been viewed about 60,000 times.

The story received a boost when it was picked up by US conservative columnist Todd Starnes and published on his blog [Thursday]. It was also picked up by The Blaze in a post... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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