Attorney General's Office - State of Alabama

This form allows you to submit a complaint to the Alabama Attorney General’s Office regarding actions of suppression, censorship, or deplatforming taken by a social-media platform involving an account owned or managed by you. Such actions include—but are not limited to—the following:

blocking, restricting, suspending, terminating, removing, or banning your account;
rejecting content posted or shared on your account;
attaching an editorial message to content posted or shared on your account;
obscuring, hiding, or otherwise making less accessible content posted or shared on your account; or
altering or deleting content posted or shared on your account.

Please use separate forms to file complaints regarding separate accounts. For example, if you have a Facebook and a Twitter account that have both been affected, then please file two complaints—one specific to your Facebook account and one specific to your Twitter account.

Purpose and Confidentiality of Complaints: The Alabama Attorney General’s Office is gathering information regarding conduct that may constitute violations of various federal and state laws, especially rights guaranteed all citizens under the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of Alabama. The information provided will be used to formulate policies to combat these violations, including legal actions against the offending parties. All personally identifiable information submitted in your complaint will be kept confidential in accordance with Alabama law.

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SECTION 1: INFORMATION REGARDING AFFECTED ACCOUNT

1. Which social-media platform does your complaint concern?*

2. If you selected “Other” for Question 1, what is the name of the social-media platform that your complaint concerns?

3. What is the “handle” (or public username) of the affected account?*

4. If you know it, what is the URL of the affected account?

5. Is this the account of an individual, business, or organization?*

6. If you selected “Business” or “Organization” for Question 5, what is the name of the business or organization?

7. If you selected “Other” for Question 5, please explain the nature of the account:

SECTION 2: INFORMATION REGARDING OWNER OR MANAGER OF AFFECTED ACCOUNT

Demographic Information

8. Are you a resident of the State of Alabama?*

9. Do you do business in the State of Alabama?*

This question primarily concerns nonresidents or persons filing a complaint on behalf of the account of a business or organization. If you are filing a complaint about your own individual account, select “Not Applicable.”

10. What is your age?

Contact Information

11. Name:

Title:

First Name:*

Middle Name:

Last Name:*

12. Address:

Street Address:

City:

State:

Zip Code:

13. Phone Number:

14. Email Address:*

SECTION 3 : INFORMATION REGARDING ACTIONS TAKEN AGAINST AFFECTED ACCOUNT

15. Which of the following (if any) actions were taken against you by the social-media provider?

Check all that apply:

My account was blocked, restricted, suspended, terminated, removed, or banned.

Content posted or shared on my account was rejected.

Content posted or shared on my account was publicly marked with a warning or editorial message.

Content posted or shared on my account was obscured, hidden, or made less accessible.

Content posted or shared on my account was deleted.

16. When did this occur?*

Month:

Year:

17. Please describe—in as specific of detail as possible—the actions taken against you by the social-media provider (including any actions indicated by your answer to Question 15):*

18. Did the social-media platform provide you with an explanation for its actions?*

19. If you answered “Yes” to Question 18, what was the explanation that the social-media platform provided?

20. Did the social-media platform provide you with the opportunity to appeal its actions?*

21. Did you appeal?*

22. If you answered “Yes” to Questions 20 and 21, please describe—in as specific of detail as possible—the appeal process and outcome:

23. Is there any additional information you wish to provide that you think is relevant to your complaint?

24. Please upload any and all files (screenshots, etc.) that can document the information you have provided in this section.

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