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Meta claims another 'error' after conservative college's second complaint about Facebook treatment

"Facebook is at it again," according to one private college in Michigan.

"Facebook is at it again," Hillsdale College posted on X. "Anyone who searches for Hillsdale's online courses page on Facebook sees a warning that they might be searching for terms associated with drug dealers. While we don't deal in narcotics, our online courses are mind-altering. The first one is free! (And every course after that, too.)" 

A building at Hillsdale College as it welcomes Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to speak April 6, 2023, in Hillsdale, Mich. (Chris duMond/Getty Images)

The Hillsdale Facebook course page, which reportedly had over 300,000 followers, was shut down Aug. 19 after it launched a course on cultural Marxism that was critical of its impact on "racial tensions, radical feminism, transgender ideology, open borders, fiscal irresponsibility, the unequal protection of the laws, and the loss of our basic rights," according to the course description.

"The @hillsdaleonline Facebook page has been down since Monday night, just as we launched a new course on Marxism, socialism, and communism," the school stated on X. "Facebook is denying people access to our course on repressive ideologies. Such issues are usually resolved within 24 hours, @Meta told us."

Meta platforms displayed on a smartphone screen in Chania, Greece, Aug. 9, 2024. (Nikolas Kokovlis/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

"Meta claims that Hillsdale’s entire online course page was taken down for almost 100 hours because of ads they mistakenly flagged on Facebook. But those same ads had been running unchanged for over a year. And we don’t even run them on the page they took down," Emily Stack Davis, Hillsdale College's executive director of media relations and communications, told Fox News Digital. 

"They are on our main Hillsdale College page. The timing of this censorship — right as we launched our new course on Marxism, socialism and communism — was particularly inopportune." 

Hillsdale College is a private, conservative Christian liberal arts college in Hillsdale, Mich. (Chris duMond/Getty Images)

Fox News' Kendall Tietz contributed to this report.