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Facebook censored a Susan B. Anthony List ad supporting pro-life Rep. Marsha Blackburn, who is running for U.S. Senate.

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November 2, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – Facebook has apologized for blocking two new ads by the Susan B. Anthony List (SBA List) supporting pro-life Republican candidates in next week’s midterm elections, but the pro-life group still wants answers about why such “mistakes” keep happening.

On Thursday, SBA List shared on Twitter two ads that had been rejected by Facebook: one supporting Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-TN for Senate, and another backing Republican Matt Rosendale for Senate in Montana.

The group shared screenshots of the emails from Facebook’s advertising team claiming the videos violated the company’s ad policies in unspecified ways.

SBA List also noted that the move comes after Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg promised that despite being a “staunch supporter of reproductive rights” and Planned Parenthood, she wouldn’t ban a Blackburn ad about the abortion giant’s sale of baby parts. The two latest banned ads do not mention that scandal; they merely cite candidates’ quotes and voting records.

“Our pro-life message is constantly under threat by Facebook which, despite the promises of COO Sheryl Sandberg, has created a hostile environment for pro-lifers to advertise in,” SBA List vice president of communications Mallory Quigley said. “Which ads of Planned Parenthood has Facebook denied? Which pro-abortion candidates have they censored?”

“Facebook is a communications tool through which both sides are working to engage and turn out voters, but now Facebook is not even bothering to hide their bias,” Quigley concluded.

Facebook apologized to the group for blocking the Blackburn ad a few hours before going on to block the Rosendale one. Eventually, Fox News reports, the company restored both of them.

“Neither of these ads violate Facebook's policies and they should never have been rejected,” a spokesman told Fox. “We’re sorry for this mistake – the ads have been restored and are now running on Facebook.”

But while SBA List has won a short-term victory, the group noted they have been censored before.

“Our ad supporting [Blackburn] and opposing [her opponent Phil Bredesen] was banned by Facebook FOUR separate times,” SBA List added. The group also shared a timeline of eleven instances of Facebook blocking six different ads just since October 9. The other targeted content includes videos opposing Democrats Claire McCaskill and Josh Welle, and ads featuring people who survived premature births.

Over the past two years, Facebook has come under fire for improperly restricting numerous conservative, pro-life, and pro-family voices, including Republican candidates, the “Activist Mommy” Elizabeth Johnston, theologian Dr. Robert A.J. Gagnon, conservative video bloggers Diamond and Silk, ex-gay speaker Joseph Sciambra, and numerous pro-life groups, videos, and ads.

Facebook has apologized for and reversed most of the aforementioned restrictions, but the company tends not to explain how such “mistakes” happen in the first place, and conservatives who accuse Facebook of political bias remain suspicious that such incidents continue to happen.

Multiple analyses have also found that Facebook’s algorithm changes last year disproportionately harmed conservatives, and last month Facebook purged without warning more than 559 political pages and 251 accounts for supposedly “inauthentic behavior,” disproportionately affecting right-of-center pages.