Action for Alice Facebook page back online after 28-day ban

Action for Alice 2020 is back on Facebook after a 28-day ban and its founder says he will keep highlighting the “truth” about crime in Alice Springs.

Action for Alice 2020, a Facebook page highlighting crime in Alice Springs, is back online after being dealt a 28-day ban for bullying and harassment.

Action for Alice founder Darren Clark confirmed the Facebook page went live again on Sunday afternoon.

Mr Clark said since the ban was in place he had created Twitter, YouTube, TikTok and Rumble pages, gaining more than 2000 followers in three weeks on Twitter.

Mr Clark, who previously said the NT government had reported his page to “stop the truth”, said he was not concerned about the page being shut down again.

Mr Clark said the page had “just gotten bigger” since the ban. Picture: Sky News.

“They can go for it, it doesn’t matter. We’ve just gotten bigger.

“The government should focus on governing. You’ve got a 19-year-old stabbed, another person hit over the head with a bottle at a bottle shop, a woman assaulted. What the hell is happening?”

Mr Clark said he ran the page as community service and he was putting full-time hours into the page after working an 80-hour week job.

“We’ve got to report the truth,” he said.

The page was suspended in February after Mr Clark posted a video of a woman throwing chairs in the Yeperenye food court.

A spokeswoman from Meta – the company that owns Facebook – told The Australian it had investigated Action for Alice 2020 and found posts were correctly removed for violating bullying and harassment policies.