Facebook deletes articles from Breitbart

NEW YORK - Facebook has taken down articles posted by the far-right site Breitbart that purported to identify the whistleblower who triggered the impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump, just two weeks after including the site in the line-up of publishers whose work would be featured in a new news product.

"Any mention of the potential whistleblower's name violates our coordinating harm policy, which prohibits content 'outing of witness, informant or activist,'" a Facebook spokesman said in an emailed statement. YouTube said on Friday that it would remove videos that mentioned the person's name, but Twitter said such references did not violate its policies.

According to CrowdTangle, a Facebook tool that analyses interactions across the site, that post appeared on the feeds of nearly 700,000 people, while 20,000 of those interacted with it, for example by commenting on it or"liking" it, before it was taken down. The executives have said they want to provide a wide range of news sources in order to serve the diversity of Facebook's gigantic audience.

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