Amazon banned the books after HuffPost reached out to ask whether Valizadeh’s content was in violation of the company’s content guidelines for self-published material — but not before it hit the top 1,000 books sold on Amazon that day. Valizadeh sold more than 2,000 copies at $23 each before Amazon knocked the books off its site, he claimed later. Amazon sells Valizadeh’s self-published books, which detail his confessions of rape . It was only after HuffPost reached out that Amazon removed Valizadeh’s books from its site. Dorsey and Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg were summoned to testify before Congress on Wednesday about their platforms’ content moderation practices, among other issues.

Source: Huffington Post September 11, 2018 00:06 UTC