Earlier today: Facebook shut down the “Storm Area 51” event page that got over 2 million pledges to “storm” the Air Force base that’s allegedly hiding aliens in southern Nevada.Matthew Roberts, who created the event in July, said Facebook took the page down on Aug. 3 for “violating community standards,” according to CNET…
And now this late tonight:
The Area 51 Facebook page is back up and running — and it wasn’t ever supposed to be offline.
“This was a mistake and the event page is now available again,” a Facebook company spokesperson told VICE News about the event page that got shut down.
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