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From left to right, Grayce Hoffman, Sara Vanasse, and Taiwo Sokan perform in the Paper Doll Ensemble s production of “Marry, Marry, Quite Contrary. (Photo by Glass Canary Photography)
On Tuesday, Grayce Hoffman tried to log onto her Facebook page and discovered it was no longer there.
Not only her personal page, but also the pages for a small jewelry business and the theater company she co-founded, Paper Doll Ensemble. Hoffman reached out to the other co-founders, Amanda Jensen and Sara Vanasse, and learned they had also been scrubbed from the social media platform.
“I knew it couldn’t be a coincidence that all Paper Doll administrators had their personal accounts disabled,” said Hoffman. “Amanda suggested it may have been because we hosted this event about Trump and QAnon.”
Paper Doll Ensemble Asks for Your Help With #SaveTheDolls
The accounts of all four Administrators of the company s Facebook page were disabled and removed from the platform without a trace.by BWW News Desk
On January 12th, 2021 The Paper Doll Ensemble s business page on Facebook was wrongfully disabled without warning or any possibility of appeal. The accounts of all four Administrators of said page were also disabled and removed from the platform without a trace. Paper Doll Ensemble, a local feminist theatre collective, suspects this misunderstanding was fueled by the topic of their most recent Clubhouse discussion dealing with racism, The Cult of Trump, and how to combat the mindset of Qanon supporters. They believe Facebook s algorithm thought they were in support of these things, when in fact they were hosting a dialogue about strategies to dismantle them.