Facebook Considers Birth Certificate Forgery Reporting “Spam”

by Sharon Rondeau

(Oct. 25, 2024) — On Thursday evening, CDR Charles F. Kerchner, Jr. (Ret) posted on his personal Facebook page a link to a P&E article published the same day titled, “Obama Long-Form ‘Rediscovered’ as a Forgery.”

To Kerchner’s surprise, Facebook removed the link and marked it as “spam.”

“It looks like you tried to get likes, follows, shares or video views in a misleading way,” the platform wrote in explanation. “This goes against our Community Standards on spam.”

Facebook’s parent company, Meta, states in its “Spam” “Policy Rationale” that it does “not allow content that is designed to deceive, mislead, or overwhelm users in order to artifically increase viewership.”

We do not allow content that is designed to deceive, mislead, or overwhelm users in order to artificially increase viewership. This content detracts from people’s ability to engage authentically on our platforms and can threaten the security, stability and usability of our services. We also seek to prevent abusive tactics, such as spreading deceptive links to draw unsuspecting users in through misleading functionality or code, or impersonating a trusted domain.

Online spam is a lucrative industry. Our policies and detection must constantly evolve to keep up with emerging spam trends and tactics. In taking action to combat spam, we seek to balance raising the costs for its producers and distributors on our platforms, with protecting the vibrant, authentic activity of our community.

“I have appealed their rather blatant censorship tactic of labeling a link to a news article in your newspaper as SPAM,” Kerchner told us early Friday morning, “an obvious tactic so as few people as possible could see your article and thus that graphic expert’s re-discovery. This is the first time they have done this to me in many years.”

In a formal letter sent in late August, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg stated to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan:

In 2021, senior officials from the Biden Administration, including the White House, repeatedly pressured our teams from months to censor certain covert-nineteen content, including humor and satire, and expressed a lot of frustration with our teams we didn’t agree. Ultimately, it was our decision whether or not to take content down and we own our decisions, including covert-nineteen-related changes made to our enforcement in the wake of this pressure. I believe the government pressure was wrong and I regret that we were not more outspoken about it. I also think we made some choices that, with the benefit of hindsight new information, we wouldn’t make today…

“I have posted a lot of politically orientated things on Facebook, including about Kamala Harris not even being a U.S. Citizen, imo,” Kerchner further wrote in his email this morning. “But for whatever reason, Facebook filters and/or staff still feel the need to protect Obama and his identity fraud forged document discussions: https://www.facebook.com/charles.kerchner“.

The article in question featured a young computer graphics technician posted by “The Liberty Daily” who appeared to have “discovered” for himself, more than 13 years after it became public, that the “long-form” birth certificate image bearing the name, “Barack Hussein Obama II” uploaded to the White House website on April 27, 2011 is a “computer-generated forgery” as determined by a 5+-year criminal investigation.

Investigator Mike Zullo, who was commissioned in August 2011 to lead then-Maricopa County, AZ Sheriff Joseph Arpaio’s “Cold Case Posse” to determine whether the image was genuine, announced at a March 1, 2012 press conference that his team established probable cause leading to the conclusion that the image is a “computer-generated forgery.”

Further investigation revealed obfuscation and contradictory public statements from the Hawaii Department of Health (HDOH), where Obama’s original, “long-form” birth record is allegedly maintained but then-Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie “could not find.”

Toward the end of the investigation, Zullo declared at a final presser that two document examiners, each well-respected in his field and working from different disciplines, reached conclusions about the birth certificate image mirroring his own.

Further evidence pointing to Zullo’s claim that the image was created with the “intent to deceive” is his 2018 revelation that two U.S. intelligence agents admitted to him it is “an open secret” in Washington, DC that Obama was born outside the country.

When the video of the young computer tech was released on the “X” on Monday and later on Rumble, dozens of commenters opined that his new revelation is “old news” but nevertheless significant.