Facebook Briefly Bans Fallout Militia Roleplaying Group Hayley Williams Fallout 76 group the Free States Militia found its group wiped from Facebook with no warning last week, after either Facebook moderation AI or a human moderator mistook it for a real militia, Kotaku reports. The group has now been reinstated, but the accidental ban speaks to Facebook's uneven moderation efforts. The Free States Militia's social media may be confusing for onlookers with no knowledge of Fallout lore, but the group is for players who want to roleplay as members of Fallout's Appalachian Free States. The group posted about their ban on Twitter, saying that the group had been removed and five of its admins had been banned from Facebook outright. So @Facebook just banned our page and banned all admins from our Gaming group. This is what censorship in the US looks like! When @Facebook cant tell the difference from video games and real life. We just lost 2 years of lore and pictures. @DCDeacon @fchadfallout76 — FSM Playstation Video Game Club (@Free_StatesMil) October 1, 2020 "It makes no sense, especially when there are real life militia groups still up and running on Facebook," a Free States admin told Kotaku over private message. Continue Reading at GameSpot https://ift.tt/eA8V8J