Facebook Bans Ad Containing 9/11 Footage for “Shocking, Sensational” Content

Beth Bailey
4 min readSep 11, 2019

After September 11, 2001, Americans made the united declaration that they would “Never Forget” the terror attacks that took 2,977 innocent lives and rocked our sense of security.

World Trade Center Towers on September 11, 2001 (Image from flickr)

Eighteen years later, Facebook has determined that the well-documented reality of that day’s disturbing events is not appropriate for its audiences. Just…

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Beth Bailey

Freelance writer working on a novel about love and the war in Afghanistan. You can find my work in the Washington Examiner, the Federalist, and the Detroit News