Facebook has now claimed that its permanent ban on Heroes of Liberty — a children's book publisher specializing in biographies of such figures as former President Ronald Reagan, Justice Amy Coney Barrett, and economist Thomas Sowell — was simply "an error."

In the absence of some further explanation of what the error was, this is a completely unsatisfactory explanation.

What appears to have happened in reality is that one of Facebook's many rabid leftist employees pulled the trigger to censor conservative content, a story as common in the world of social media as turkey is at Thanksgiving dinner.

In this case, Facebook actually took ad money from Heroes of Liberty and then refused to show its advertisements, supposedly on the grounds that its product was "low quality" or "disruptive."

There is no reason to think that this company's work product is either of those things. Yet somehow, Facebook not only flagged the material but also denied the company's appeal and instituted a permanent ban. This means that an actual human being working for ...............