NRA radio silence: Social media accounts muted in wake of tragedy

The National Rifle Association’s social media accounts have gone dark following the massacre at Sandy Hook School in Newtown, Conn.

Since the tragic shooting Friday, the NRA has declined to comment, rejecting invitations to speak from MSNBC and other networks. That media blackout extends to the powerful gun lobby’s social media accounts: The group has gone silent on Twitter, suspending the NRA’s 10 days of Christmas giveaway, and un-published its Facebook page.

Roughly ten hours after the shooting, Ad Week first noticed that links to the NRA Facebook page—which boasted topping 1.7 million members just days before—had been unpublished. TechCrunch reports that Facebook did not take the page down, so the group presumably removed the page itself to avoid the inevitable fights that would have occurred on its walls.

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