Editing Louis Farrakhan (section)

==Social media==
Farrakhan lost his verified status on his [[Twitter]] posts in June 2018, denying him full verification, after asserting the [[Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse cases|Harvey Weinstein scandal]] was about "Jewish power".<ref>{{cite news|last=Weich|first=Ben|url=https://www.thejc.com/news/world/louis-farrakhan-nation-of-islam-harvey-weinstein-scandal-jewish-power-1.465434|title=Louis Farrakhan 'loses Twitter blue tick' after blaming Harvey Weinstein scandal on 'Jewish power'|work=The Jewish Chronicle|location=London|date=June 13, 2018|access-date=May 10, 2019}}</ref> A contributor to the ''[[Tablet (magazine)|Tablet]]'' website, [[Yair Rosenberg]], objected to a potential suspension on the grounds that "erasing hate from social media doesn't make it go away, it just makes it easier to ignore": allowing such accounts to continue to have a social media presence makes them more difficult to dismiss as "inconsequential".<ref>{{cite news|last=Rosenberg|first=Yair|url=https://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/264486/twitter-suspend-louis-farrakhan-anti-semitism|title=Twitter Just Unverified Louis Farrakhan. Here's Why It's Good That They Didn't Suspend Him|work=Tablet|date=June 15, 2018|access-date=May 10, 2019}}</ref> The following October, Twitter said that it would not suspend Farrakhan's account after he posted a tweet that compared Jews to termites: Twitter substantiated its inaction by stating that he had not broken the site's rules.<ref>{{cite news|last=Doherty|first=Rosa|url=https://www.thejc.com/news/world/louis-farrakhan-keeps-his-twitter-account-despite-comparing-jews-to-termites-1.471160|title=Louis Farrakhan keeps his Twitter account despite comparing Jews to termites|work=The Jewish Chronicle|location=London|date=October 18, 2018|access-date=May 10, 2019}}</ref> After a Twitter rule change on hateful conduct in July 2019, the tweet—"I'm not an anti-Semite. I'm anti-Termite"—was removed.<ref>{{cite news|last=Dolsten|first=Joseph|url=https://www.jta.org/quick-reads/louis-farrakhans-2018-tweet-comparing-jews-to-termites-is-gone-after-twitter-policy-change|title=Louis Farrakhan's 2018 tweet comparing Jews to termites is gone after Twitter policy change|agency=Jewish Telegraphic Agency|date=July 9, 2019|access-date=August 1, 2020}}</ref>

At the beginning of May 2019, Farrakhan was banned from [[Facebook]], along with other prominent individuals considered by the company to be extremists, with antisemitism believed to be the reason for Farrakhan's removal.<ref name="Atlantic20190502" /><ref name="ChicST20190519" />

During a speech at Saint Sabina Catholic Church in Chicago a week later, Farrakhan stated he had "never been arrested" for "drunken driving" and asked: "What have I done that you would hate me like that?" The Nation of Islam said his speech was Farrakhan's response to the "public outrage over the unprecedented and unwarranted lifetime ban" from Facebook. He insisted he was neither a misogynist nor a homophobe and that: "I do not hate Jewish people".<ref name="CNN20190510">{{cite news|last=Burke|first=Daniel|url=https://edition.cnn.com/2019/05/09/us/farrakhan-speech-chicago-church/index.html|title=A Catholic church hosted Louis Farrakhan for an anti-Facebook speech. At least one Jewish group was not happy about it|work=CNN|date=May 10, 2019|access-date=May 10, 2019|quote=Farrakhan denied being misogynistic and homophobic. He said, 'The white people who think I'm a hater,' don't know him. 'No one that is with me has ever committed a crime against the Jewish people, black people, white people, no matter what your color is'.}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/may/11/louis-farrakhan-denies-antisemitism-satanic-jews|title=Louis Farrakhan denies antisemitism – then refers to 'Satanic Jews'|work=The Guardian|agency=Associated Press|date=May 11, 2019|access-date=May 12, 2019}}</ref> [[Blase J. Cupich]], the [[Archbishop of Chicago]], condemned the decision of the church in allowing Farrakhan to speak there.<ref>{{cite news|last=Schlumpf|first=Heidi|url=https://www.ncronline.org/news/people/cupich-condemns-farrakhan-appearance-chicago-church| title= Cupich condemns Farrakhan appearance at Chicago church|work= National Catholic Reporter|date=May 14, 2019| access-date=May 28, 2019}}</ref>

[[File:Home of Louis Farrakhan (30788246228).jpg|thumb|Farrakhan's home in [[Kenwood, Chicago]], 2018]]