The work-focused social media platform LinkedIn is receiving backlash for removing a conservative advocacy group’s post.
State Freedom Caucus Network took to X with claims that their post supporting the work of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was removed from the site. They say the message was labeled “hateful speech” and was removed by the “Trust and Safety team.”
Look:
🚨🚨Woke @LinkedIn removed our post below calling out the great work of DHS & ICE in taking pedos off the streets.
Reason? “Hateful speech.”
Apparently protecting children is “hate,” but letting actual predators roam free is fine.@elonmusk doesn’t censor us, but @LinkedIn… https://t.co/t5FV0d0iby pic.twitter.com/OpIUbF7fuw
— State Freedom Caucus Network (@SFC_Network) January 29, 2026
“Woke [LinkedIn] removed our post below calling out the great work of DHS & ICE in taking pedos off the streets. Reason? ‘Hateful speech.’ Apparently protecting children is ‘hate,’ but letting actual predators roam free is fine,” the organization wrote in an X post. “[Elon Musk] doesn’t censor us, but [LinkedIn] does! We’ll be deleting our account as a result.”
The post in question was also published on other social media platforms like X, and read:
[DHS] is carrying out the essential task of keeping our country safe.
ADVERTISEMENTBiden let over 10M illegal aliens enter our states, many being violent criminals and pedophiles. Every state must ensure collaboration with ICE and CBP to remove them. Our caucuses are on the frontlines leading their states to support [President Donald Trump]’s mission to keep Americans safe!
State Freedom Caucus Network President Andrew Roth spoke to Fox News Digital, revealing he was contacted by the platform, which reversed the removal after finding no actual violation.
“Initially, your post was removed for going against our policies,” they told him. “As part of our review, we now find that your post doesn’t go against our policies and apologize for the mistake.”
Indeed, a LinkedIn spokesperson told the outlet that the post “was removed in error, and we quickly corrected it.”
“Yeah, right,” Roth said. “I guess wokeism is still alive and well, but we will continue to fight it. First step is to not engage on the LinkedIn platform ever again. Second step is to tell the world what they did.”
Heritage Foundation Senior Research Associate at the Center for Technology and the Human Person, Daniel Cochrane, says the removal and reinstatement follow Big Tech’s “predictable model.”
“Censor first and then ask for forgiveness later,” he told Fox News Digital. “While platforms nearly always claim a ‘mistake’ or ‘miscommunication’ content moderation systems and processes operate in a black box. The opaque nature of these systems leads to a dearth of accountability.”
He pointed out that platforms don’t even necessarily have to be “explicitly targeting” a particular group of people or political message, because “liberal biases” can be “baked into their algorithmic moderation systems disproportionately flag and demote conservative voices.”
“Without greater accountability, the status quo of arbitrary censorship is a feature of Big Tech platforms, not a bug.”
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Sierra Marlee is a millennial whose hunger for the truth in a world of fake news has led her to write. Marlee also contributes to BizPac Review.
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