I was oblivious to the real significance of Facebook in everyday life until the company disabled my personal, private thomhartmann account. The list of "possible" reasons they posted for doing this included "impersonating a celebrity," so maybe they shut me down because they thought I pretending to be that guy who's a talk show host and author. (Facebook, if you're reading this, I am that guy.)

It's also possible somebody at Facebook took offense to my interviewing Judd Legum around that time about the groundbreaking research he's been publishing over at popular.info pointing out the right-wing slant Facebook's corporate management and founder have taken. Fact is, though, I have no idea why they did it.

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-Thom