Something WEIRD going on with Facebook. Multiple posts being flagged

[Roland99]

Last edited Tue Mar 17, 2020, 08:15 PM - Edit history (1)

One post of mine was about the Doctor in Belgium discussing terrifying X-rays of younger Covid-19 victims

The other was about Lyle Waggoner‘a death

[dewsgirl]

1. Would you mind posting that here or DM me please?

I'm am fully aware of the it's not just the elderly.

[Roland99]

4. This thread. I posted it again on my page and it got flagged again

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213117381

[dewsgirl]

18. Thank you so much.

[Roland99]

19. No prob!

[Bev54]

2. They said they were taking down

any posts to links they think are not truthful about the corona virus. Could this be one? Once they target you to delete a link, they delete all posts of yours with links. There doesn't seem to be any reason for this.

[tanyev]

3. A few months ago I got banned from doing Amazon reviews.

I did a few snarky reviews of Scooter Libby’s book and a couple Left Behind books years ago, but the tiny number of reviews I have done in more recent times have all been completely void of politics and entirely about the merits of the product in question. Wouldn’t surprise me if there are some data mining operations going on.

[OrlandoDem2]

5. Mine was flagged and it had nothing to do with CV. I posted a legit link.

The link I posted was about the FL legislature and it was reputable. I didn’t lie about the contents of the link either.

[marlakay]

6. A friend had a good post about the virus

Taken off. They are pulling down a lot of stuff.

[bamagal62]

7. A bunch of mine got pulled off.

[Coventina]

8. Daily Caller is now one of their screeners.

So, yeah, Facebook is going to flag anything that isn't palatable to them.

[TubbersUK]

9. There's a thread on Twitter discussing the Facebook thing:

Link to tweet

?s=20

[uppityperson]

10. I had one removed as spam, it's weird.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

11. Are they flagging Trump's and his people's coronavirus stuff?

If not then I would suspect his people have influenced or even demanded this process from Facebook.

Trump likely doesn't want anything but his bullshit published......

For example, he's got most all Rethug governors in lockstep with him.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

15. Money buys you special dispensation from censorship.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

22. Yep. Perhaps also exchanged for turning a blind eye to Russian trolls.

.................

[Shell_Seas]

12. I noticed that. Several of my friends had normal, true posts reported as spam or something...

[WhiskeyGrinder]

13. If I had to guess, the increased posting from people sharing COVID info is tripping up the AI.

[shanti]

14. What is this

about a Belgian doctor and X-rays? I couldn't find anything on it.

[Roland99]

16. See post 4

[Roland99]

17. Ok. Now I had one flagged about museums offering virtual tours that I posted days ago

[rzemanfl]

21. I would much rather take your word than the word of someone

whose wife conveyed hearsay on hearsay and one other thing of significance, digitally, if you get my drift.

[Roland99]

23. Local FB group has many people complaining

I’m betting they updated some sort of algorithm and it’s running amok

[Shell_Seas]

20. Check out the comments on this thread from Living Blue in Texas. Are Liberals being censored?

https://www.facebook.com/167529403402369/posts/1499792436842719/

[sunflowerseed]

24. I tried to post the same story

I got a pink warning saying it was against community standards! First time ever!

[Rosco T.]

25. Calm Down people.....

look here... https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213118461

[Roland99]

26. Figured. Like I said in post 23

But it’s still interesting how skewed this seems to be towards spreading actual information

[dhol82]

31. Thank you.

[dhol82]

27. Had the same problem.

Not sure what the glitch was.
Trolls?

[Roland99]

28. See post 25

[Alacritous Crier]

29. Happed to me too -- nt

[CanonRay]

30. I had an article from Esquire flagged

[sarcasmo]

32. Check out this article from TechCrunch

https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/17/facebook-link-spam-filter-coronavirus/

[edbermac]

33. A friend said the Trump responsibility comment was being deleted.

Considered spam he said.

[Rosco T.]

35. You're friend is full of it n/t

[herding cats]

34. Could it be this? A bug in Facebook's anti-spam system temporarily put a lid on some coronavirus new

Facebook Inc.’s overzealous spam filter temporarily put a lid on some coronavirus links.

A bug in its News Feed prevented URLs from legitimate sources such as USA Today and BuzzFeed from being shared as posts or comments Tuesday. Many Facebook FB, +2.33% members like Lana Rushing, who runs a public-relations company in Los Angeles, said she received a warning from Facebook after attempting to share news posts on the pandemic from USA Today and NBC’s Today Show.

“All of the sudden, I began receiving notifications from Facebook for posts that I shared, saying they violated community guidelines, marking them as spam,” Rushing told MarketWatch in a Facebook message Tuesday. “When I disputed these reports, Facebook overrode my request and began closing the cases.”

The notifications referred to posts previously shared with Rushing’s network of Facebook friends, she said. This marks the first time Rushing said she was warned of violating the social network’s community standards on spam in the 13 years she’s been a member.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/a-bug-in-facebooks-anti-spam-system-has-put-a-lid-on-some-coronavirus-news-links-2020-03-17?mod=mw_latestnews

[Roland99]

36. Just got an apology email from FB that said my post was back

[lindysalsagal]

37. Heard on cbs news this morning: Facebook vp: They're trying to stop bad information

and so have probably over-done it with the attack bots. I'd rather have it that way than allow bad info out there.