Facebook denied allegations Tuesday that it intentionally deleted a “Boycott BP” fan page that had amassed nearly 800,000 fans, TechCrunch reported.
Lee Perkins, who created the fan page where users post complaints about BP’s handling of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, accused Facebook of executing a “top kill” and targeting himself and his family by disabling their personal Facebook profile pages and deleting the “Boycott BP” fan page.
Perkins, a Louisiana resident, told ABC news in June that he started the page to hold BP accountable to fix the leak, clean-up the Gulf coast and offer compensation to the people who have lost their livelihoods because of the spill.
Facebook responded Tuesday that the page deletion resulted from an error in an automated system that flagged the page and denied the page removal was intentional.
“The admin profile of the Boycott BP Page was disabled by our automated systems therefore removing all the content that had been created by the profile,” Facebook said in a statement Tuesday.
“After a manual review we determined the profile was removed in error and it has now been restored along with the Page.”