Just to recap:
-The Kansas Reflector posted a column critical of FB on Thursday
-Meta blocked/deleted all their links across platforms
-Meta restored all Reflector links except the critical column
-I reposted the column on The Handbasket Friday
-Meta blocked/deleted all my links across platforms
I replied to an ad on Instagram for a similar product where a company tried to take my money and run (I canceled the card payment before they got it) and just said "Is this for real or is this a money grab" or words to that effect and my comment was stricken for "violations" within about 90 seconds.
He has done exactly this sort of thing several times on twitter. Like one of the first things he did was purge journalists and left wing orgs like crimethinc. He has also blocked links for negative coverage of tesla iirc.
he banned a bunch of left wing journos who were critical of him, Matt Binder being one of many. But then Matt discovered you could create Spaces while banned so Musk dealt with that by temporarily removing Spaces for everyone
He doesn't block posting links, but I'm pretty sure he sets it up so the tweet is automatically hidden from searches.
It's basically what happened when people started posting links to that site about that nazi Texan, Hans Kristian Graebener.
Seems like a lot of effort for a Kansas Reflector editorial. I still think this is a security algorithm goof. Everyone rushing to try to post a link they already flagged as "suspicious" for might trip a "bot army" lockdown.
Facebook may be evil, but this has incompetent written all over it.
This thread of mine was inspired by you.
Assessing pattern-based institutional behavior is important, and it’s super important we don’t default to simplistic motives because it’s easier for us to digest
When Meta inevitably "regrets the error" and turns things back on, they can use this reasoning as plausible deniability. You know someone at supervisor level knows about the situation by now, unless they're not actually on social media themselves.
Maybe. But FB has like 3 billion users, and tons of coordinated and/or malicious bot activity they try to regulate. A few thousand people on social media screaming about censorship actually may not rise to the supervisor level yet.
It's a real problem that the media through which so many people communicate their political perspectives is policed by people whose primary purpose is protecting the interests of billionaires.
I'm glad Bsky hasn't gone that way ... yet. We need more actual people in more virtual places like Bsky.
Jesus.
I tried to post your recent piece/share, and then told FB why I thought it was unfair...and now they've yanked an article I dated about Tim Walberg. It seems like they've flat out tagged anything related to you.
Amazon's own media companies have done the same thing in the past. Amazon made it a bannable offense to speak ill of it's company and CEO and executives on Twitch, which is owned by Amazon. Amazon also tracked what you said about them on others sites, so you could get banned over Twitter tweets.
Facebook doesn’t allow Canadians to share any links to news. This is because of a Canadian law which would require them to pay to the government for those links
