Posting the Lord’s Prayer on Facebook is against the platform’s policies.
This is not true. Meta, which owns Facebook, has confirmed users can post the Lord’s Prayer and there is no mention of Christian or other religious content in Facebook’s ‘community standards’ policies.
Multiple posts on Facebook wrongly claim sharing the Lord’s Prayer is against the social media platform’s policies.
The posts, which all have identical text, say: “After hearing [Meta CEO Mark] Zuckerberg and Facebook saying that posting the Lord’s Prayer goes against their policies, I’m asking all Christians please post the Lord’s Prayer [...]” before going on to share the prayer. A number of posts have more than 500 shares.
However, a spokesperson for Meta, which owns Facebook, confirmed to Full Fact that posting the Lord’s Prayer is not against its policies. Similarly, there’s no mention of Christian or other religious content in Facebook’s community standards, which outlines what is and isn’t allowed on the site.
The very fact the posts haven’t been deleted also suggests posting the Lord’s Prayer does not breach any policies that would subsequently lead to its removal.
This is not the first time Full Fact has seen posts making this claim. When we fact checked similar claims in June 2020, we said the claim could have stemmed from a 2016 online article which claimed all “Christian themed content” would be banned from the social media platform, supposedly citing a Facebook representative...
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