What was claimed
A Lee Rigby charity football page was removed from Facebook due to “left wing pressure.”
Our verdict
The page was removed from Facebook, but the company says this was due to a hacking attempt. It has since been reinstated.
A Lee Rigby charity football Facebook page was taken down due to a hacking attempt
17 August 2020
A Facebook post claiming that a Lee Rigby charity football page was removed from Facebook due to “left-wing pressure” has been shared 21,000 times.
It is true that a page organising a “Lee Rigby Memorial Cup” was taken down in late June. However, Facebook told Full Fact that this was due to a hacking attempt, and the page and the Facebook event for the cup have both been restored. The restored Facebook page has also posted about this hacking attempt.
Full Fact has also reached out to the Lee Rigby Foundation about the page.
This article is part of our work fact checking potentially false pictures, videos and stories on Facebook. You can read more about this—and find out how to report Facebook content—here. For the purposes of that scheme, we’ve rated this claim as partly false because the page was removed by Facebook after a hacking attempt, and later reinstated, and not because of “left-wing pressure”.