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Re: FB messenger silently censoring links, claims they were sent

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Post by toolz »

ekam wrote: post #10
TechBro8615 wrote: post #5

This has been happening for years. Just try sending a message containing the string `joebiden.info` and see what happens. We’re way past the rubicon. Get your information as best you can and just hope you’re somewhat aligned with the mainstream.

Just tried it and it sends without an issue

I suspect they have flagged users that get filtered differently. I've been in comment threads where people say very similar things as myself with all the same keywords and I'll get a message days later about a submission being hidden due to some violations.

Re: FB messenger silently censoring links, claims they were sent

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Post by sqqqqrly »

kevmo wrote: post #8

Facebook has been suppressing links and profiles that don't make them money for years.

Why does anyone use fb? I never have had an account. I do help my mother-in-law with hers a bit.

My company asked me to create a Twitter account. I deleted it a month later.

The soln to bad speech is better speech.

Re: FB messenger silently censoring links, claims they were sent

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Post by koolba »

ekam wrote: post #10
TechBro8615 wrote: post #5

This has been happening for years. Just try sending a message containing the string `joebiden.info` and see what happens. We’re way past the rubicon. Get your information as best you can and just hope you’re somewhat aligned with the mainstream.

Just tried it and it sends without an issue

Depends on how you do it. If it’s E2E then according to this comment from March 2020 it goes through: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23110664

Re: FB messenger silently censoring links, claims they were sent

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Post by nvr219 »

sqqqqrly wrote: post #13
kevmo wrote: post #8

Facebook has been suppressing links and profiles that don't make them money for years.

Why does anyone use fb? I never have had an account. I do help my mother-in-law with hers a bit. My company asked me to create a Twitter account. I deleted it a month later. The soln to bad speech is better speech.

I use Facebook because the groups I'm involved with IRL communicate on Facebook, or whatsapp (also owned by fb of course).

Re: FB messenger silently censoring links, claims they were sent

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Post by fareesh »

GNews is where you can see the contents of the Hunter Biden laptop so that's why it's banned. Had the contents of some Trump family member's laptop been leaked to the media, Facebook would have it trending. This technology is used to ensure that preferred candidates have an advantage.

Re: FB messenger silently censoring links, claims they were sent

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Post by swayvil »

Barrin92 wrote: post #4

That messenger is subject to facebook's community guidelines is nothing new, Zuckerberg said so himself publicly in an interview a few years ago https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-confirms-scans-mess...

>That messenger is subject to facebook's community guidelines is nothing new

This thing that you just said. This statement that you just made. The choice of phrasing. Is very weasel. Very corporate newspeak.

It's got a kind of beauty.

Like when Ash, from Alien (1979), speaks admiringly : "You still don't understand what you're dealing with, do you? The perfect organism. Its structural perfection is matched only by its hostility...I admire its purity. A survivor...unclouded by conscience, remorse, or delusions of morality."

Re: FB messenger silently censoring links, claims they were sent

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Post by theteapot »

Barrin92 wrote: post #4

That messenger is subject to facebook's community guidelines is nothing new, Zuckerberg said so himself publicly in an interview a few years ago https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-confirms-scans-mess...

That messenger is subject to facebook's ~~community guidelines~~ world view ...

Re: FB messenger silently censoring links, claims they were sent

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Post by ZoomerCretin »

In case anyone is wondering what Pulitzer-prize winning piece she is attempting to share, check out her link yourself: https://gnews.org/1476750/, as well as a fact-check disproving all of the dangerous and false claims inside: https://www.techarp.com/science/greenlight-ivermectin-japan/

I, for one, am glad Facebook is censoring this baseless pseudo-medical advice being given which has been responsible for a massive increase in calls to poison control (https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/texas-s...)

Ivermectin causes “Nausea, vomiting, and abdominal pain,” the director of the Texas Poison Center told TPR. “However, you can have further problems, including mental status changes, coma, even seizures… I haven’t seen any deaths here in Texas, but these are things that are reported by the manufacturer with people who use large doses.”

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/08/americans-poiso...

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