Proceso News Item Highlighting Juarez Drug Activity Removed from Facebook Mexico News Daily
go to original September 12, 2014

The photo that shut down Proceso's Facebook page. (Germán Canseco)

The grittier side of Ciudad Juárez was a bit too gritty for Facebook this week.

The giant social media site shut down the Facebook page of Mexican newsmagazine Proceso for five hours after it published a photo showing a man injecting himself with heroin.

The photo is part of a series of photographs by Germán Canseco that depict the shooting galleries of Ciudad Juárez, first published by Proceso in 2008, which won Canseco the National Journalism Award in photography in 2008.

The photos have now been published in a book, Made in Ciudad Juárez, which Canseco presented at an event on Tuesday in the city of Oaxaca. It was a news item about that event, posted to Proceso’s Facebook page, that led to yesterday’s action by the social network.

Later, it notified Proceso that it had eliminated the item and the link to the story on Proceso’s website because it did not comply with Facebook’s community standards. The magazine’s Facebook page, which has more than 2.3 million likes, was disactivated between 9:00am and 2:00pm.

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