Descendant of Mussolini threatens legal action against Facebook
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A great-grandson of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini has said he will take Facebook to court after it suspended his account for violating its “community standards”.
Caio Mussolini, 51, a member of the anti-immigration Brothers of Italy party, denied he posted messages that could have breached hate speech rules.
“I totally exclude posting anything that could have justified this,” he said.
“With my surname I know I am on their radar and I pay a lot of attention to my posts — this is like Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, where you can’t express ideas that aren’t aligned with the way Facebook allows you to think.”
The former submarine officer failed to win a seat in the European Parliament elections in May and has since become the part’s defence spokesman.
He said he suspected himself to be a victim of Facebook’s “campaign against the right”.
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