By John Glenday

Facebook has disappointed the drag queen community after it reaffirmed its real-name policy which has entailed the mass deletion of hundreds of accounts held by people using alternative names.

Members of the drag queen community had met with Facebook representatives in an effort to encourage them to change the policy but the social network is insistent that users must use their actual birth names – with no exemptions.

Activists from the niche community had argued for the right to use stage names in reference to themselves but these arguments left the social network unmoved.

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Source: The Drum