Facebook has announced that it will be removing all posts linking the wildfires sweeping through Oregon to arsonists after the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) brushed off the reports as nothing more than baseless theories, according to a recent report from Big League Politics. Facebooks Democrat-aligned policy communications manager Andy Stone made the announcement on Twitter Sept. 13. The decision, Stone claimed, is based on claims from law enforcement that the rumors do nothing more than distract local fire and police agencies from fighting the fires and protecting the public.
However, this statement comes in direct contrast to the actual arson arrests that have cropped up in California, Oregon and Washington over the past week.