• Officials from the American Library Association nevertheless issued a press release on Wednesday claiming that the number of demands to “censor library books” has nearly doubled between 2021 and 2022.
• Some 58% of the requests “targeted books and materials in school libraries,” while 41% “targeted materials in public libraries.”
• “We’re seeing these challenges come from organized censorship groups that target local library board meetings to demand removal of a long list of books they share on social media,” American Library Association Office for Intellectual Freedom Director Deborah Caldwell-Stone said in the release.

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