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Steve Webb is back! Dec 18

I was surprised to see Steve Webb at the leadership election announcement this afternoon as Facebook had reported that he didn’t really exist. (My guess is that an automated system detected his surname as he unlikely “MP” and flagged it as a fake.)

The good news is that Facebook have acted quickly and have restored our parliamentary party’s leading Facebooker to the site – and will make sure it doesn’t happen again.

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  1. [...] Ryan Cullen’s group Steve Webb is real!, set up in response to Facebook’s suspension of Steve’s account on the grounds that he didn’t exist, grew rapidly this week, but, as is the way of these Web 2.0 things, it’s already defunct as Steve has been reinstated. [...]

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