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Facebook accidentally removed The Specials’ Neville Staple’s page due to “skinhead links”

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10.06.2020 - 18:35

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The Specials‘ founding member Neville Staple due to its apparent link to skinhead culture, which has long been associated with far-right ideals.The social media platform implemented a new ban on racist content across their platform earlier this week after the issues of racial injustice and prejudice came to the fore again in the wake of George Floyd’s death.Staple’s profile was deactivated by Facebook along with hundreds of others, with the musician believing that algorithms had tied the 1970s 2 Tone moment with racism.

The musician later told the BBC that this was “the complete opposite of what [the band] were about”.Staple’s wife and manager Christine, who also sung in The Specials, said: “We’re the 2 Tone era, we came about when racial.

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