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Cary

(11,746 posts) Tue Mar 17, 2020, 08:54 PM Mar 2020

WTF with Facebook?

I shared this article from the Atlantic:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/peter-wehner-trump-presidency-over/607969/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share&fbclid=IwAR1JMKq5uDrOiQUQj5k7KlW02WiJ-AdHPnGAmZCA1eb_HoyUbDRv7ByvUBw

Facebook removed the article, claiming my post was spam. They say I had phony likes and shares.

I posted a link to an article from The Atlantic. That's it. Who is behind this and why? Just a head scratcher for now but if it happens again then .... I have to consider what to do next. Whine here some more? Definitely but I need to ratchet.up my resistance.

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WTF with Facebook? (Original Post) Cary Mar 2020 OP

It may be an AI glitch. Shell_Seas Mar 2020 #1

Apparently they are short of adequate personnel and the automated system is making decisions Siwsan Mar 2020 #2

There's reportedly a bug doing this SoCalNative Mar 2020 #3

It's happening to a lot of people C_U_L8R Mar 2020 #4

I posted the SAME. It hasn't been removed yet, but I will keep an eye on it! BigDemVoter Mar 2020 #5

K&R, looks like FB is reporting an automation bug uponit7771 Mar 2020 #6

I have been getting this for a couple of weeks Bev54 Mar 2020 #7

It's a pile of shit?💩 we can do it Mar 2020 #8

I just got told DU is spam. bluedigger Mar 2020 #9

The big question is do they remove anti-trump links and leave the pro-trump links? Jacoby365 Mar 2020 #10

There's hacking and online attacks all over the internet defacto7 Mar 2020 #11

Bob the AI bot caught the virus. KY_EnviroGuy Mar 2020 #12

Looks like others have tried posting to Atlantic articke. sinkingfeeling Mar 2020 #13

Thanks Cary Mar 2020 #15

We have had 3 friends say that their offensive remarks about MF45 have been removed. Freedomofspeech Mar 2020 #14

Just happened to me!! healthnut7 Mar 2020 #16

Latest information healthnut7 Mar 2020 #21

skynet has become self-aware and acting. aikoaiko Mar 2020 #17

Ha! Cary Mar 2020 #19

Yeah. That place is a cess pool. I left in March 2018 after 10 years SiliconValley_Dem Mar 2020 #18

From what I hear, there is a lot of flagging ismnotwasm Mar 2020 #20

Shell_Seas

(3,334 posts)

1. It may be an AI glitch.

Reply to Cary (Original post)

Tue Mar 17, 2020, 08:55 PM

Mar 2020

Check out the comments on this thread, it seems like it's happening to hundreds of people.

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

Siwsan

(26,272 posts)

2. Apparently they are short of adequate personnel and the automated system is making decisions

Reply to Cary (Original post)

Tue Mar 17, 2020, 08:57 PM

Mar 2020

That's their story, anyway. Nothing I've posted has disappeared. I have my account set on private, and have pretty much sequestered any trump* leaning people into a restricted folder. No doubt some of them are wondering why they never see me post, anymore.

SoCalNative

(4,613 posts)

3. There's reportedly a bug doing this

Reply to Cary (Original post)

Tue Mar 17, 2020, 08:57 PM

Mar 2020

It's dinging posts across the board

C_U_L8R

(45,003 posts)

4. It's happening to a lot of people

Reply to Cary (Original post)

Tue Mar 17, 2020, 08:57 PM

Mar 2020

Seems their 'glitch' is a rightwinger. It can't handle the truth.

BigDemVoter

(4,150 posts)

5. I posted the SAME. It hasn't been removed yet, but I will keep an eye on it!

Reply to Cary (Original post)

Tue Mar 17, 2020, 08:58 PM

Mar 2020

uponit7771

(90,347 posts)

6. K&R, looks like FB is reporting an automation bug

Reply to Cary (Original post)

Tue Mar 17, 2020, 08:58 PM

Mar 2020

Bev54

(10,053 posts)

7. I have been getting this for a couple of weeks

Reply to Cary (Original post)

Tue Mar 17, 2020, 09:00 PM

Mar 2020

They take one down, and I do think someone is reporting us as spam, then they take down every post with a link. I now get others to link for me.

we can do it

(12,189 posts)

8. It's a pile of shit?💩

Reply to Cary (Original post)

Tue Mar 17, 2020, 09:03 PM

Mar 2020

bluedigger

(17,086 posts)

9. I just got told DU is spam.

Reply to Cary (Original post)

Tue Mar 17, 2020, 09:11 PM

Mar 2020

They removed my share of the DU graphic with Mitch posted earlier here.

Jacoby365

(451 posts)

10. The big question is do they remove anti-trump links and leave the pro-trump links?

Reply to Cary (Original post)

Tue Mar 17, 2020, 09:11 PM

Mar 2020

defacto7

(13,485 posts)

11. There's hacking and online attacks all over the internet

Reply to Cary (Original post)

Tue Mar 17, 2020, 09:13 PM

Mar 2020

The last couple of days. Could be another infiltration. Who knows.

KY_EnviroGuy

(14,492 posts)

12. Bob the AI bot caught the virus.

Reply to Cary (Original post)

Tue Mar 17, 2020, 09:26 PM

Mar 2020

Can we haywire it to knock Grifter Trump off Twitter?

KY................

sinkingfeeling

(51,461 posts)

13. Looks like others have tried posting to Atlantic articke.

Reply to Cary (Original post)

Tue Mar 17, 2020, 09:29 PM

Mar 2020

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213118395

Cary

(11,746 posts)

15. Thanks

Reply to sinkingfeeling (Reply #13)

Tue Mar 17, 2020, 10:04 PM

Mar 2020

I'm going to bitch. I sent them a scathing complaint.

Freedomofspeech

(4,226 posts)

14. We have had 3 friends say that their offensive remarks about MF45 have been removed.

Reply to Cary (Original post)

Tue Mar 17, 2020, 09:41 PM

Mar 2020

healthnut7

(249 posts)

16. Just happened to me!!

Reply to Cary (Original post)

Tue Mar 17, 2020, 10:22 PM

Mar 2020

I shared a Facebook post that was giving information that you should not take Ibuprofen for the virus because supposedly it makes it worse.
Then I get a notice it was removed. Maybe that was false information. Yet you would have thought the person sending it would have had it removed.