From Facebook Reportedly Censored 9/11 Falling Man by Mistake, Not Biden Suicide Cancer Patient Gaffe

by Catherine Salgado

Facebook censored an image of a man falling to his death from the burning World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, due to suicidal content.

ESPN senior writer Tom Junod wrote in a tweet that when he tried to post a link to his story about the falling man, Facebook replied, “‘We had to remove something you posted because we’re concerned it might promote or encourage self-harm or suicidal behavior.’”

Junod slammed the “absurdity” of Facebook censoring the image, saying that it is part of our “national record.” The journalist added that “What offends me in 2022 is what offended me in 2003, when @esquire published the story: 4/ The notion that there was a right way to die on 9/11 and a wrong way — that there were some deaths we were willing to talk about and some we weren’t, because they were too upsetting and because they violated the national narrative.”