Pro Bernie Sanders image blocked by Facebook following possible campaign to report it as 'bad'

Australian Facebook user Scott Collins became aware of the situation when a friend in the US asked him to post an image that was being blocked.

"He said Facebook has been taking down Bernie stuff if it's pro-Bernie," Mr Collins told ABC radio.

"For 50 minutes I just kept uploading [the image] and it was security blocked by Facebook — cannot upload this for security reasons."

Because so many people marked this image as 'bad', they're not going to let it go up again because they don't want to have to deal with the complaints.
Trevor Long, technology commentator
Mr Collins realised that Facebook was automatically recognising the image and determining that it was not to be posted, so he took action to beat the system.

Mr Long said this could be the beginning of a growing problem for Facebook.

"Once this story gets out, there's nothing to stop any group, any party, any couple of people, starting a movement against a particular image," he said.