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Bug causes Facebook to mark some posts on coronavirus as spam
The Hill ^ | 03 17 2020 | Justin Wise

Posted on 03/17/2020 6:50:05 PM PDT by yesthatjallen

A bug in Facebook's anti-spam system caused the platform to mistakenly mark some posts from individuals and publishers about the novel coronavirus as spam on Tuesday, a top Facebook official said.

Guy Rosen, Facebooks vice president of integrity, said in a tweet that the company was in the process of "fixing and bringing all these posts back." He denied that the problem stemmed from Facebook's decision to send home contract workers who review content on the site in response to the outbreak of the virus.

He made the denial in a direct response to a tweet from the company's former security chief, Alex Stamos, speculating that it was the reason. It remains unclear how many posts were impacted by the bug.

The statement from Facebook came after several individuals shared experiences in which content they shared about the novel coronavirus was flagged as spam.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: censorship; coronavirus; facebook; feature; spam

1 posted on 03/17/2020 6:50:05 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

That would be the Zuckerbug...


2 posted on 03/17/2020 6:51:31 PM PDT by PubliusMM (RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion. Mr Trump, we've got your six.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Yep, happened to me on my post about China closing all of their temporary hospitals.


3 posted on 03/17/2020 6:52:34 PM PDT by HollyB
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Isn’t Zuck literally married to the Chinese? No one profits betting against America.


4 posted on 03/17/2020 6:52:39 PM PDT by proust (Justice delayed is injustice.)
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To: yesthatjallen

I had an innocuous post of a Coronavirus article banned. I just deleted the post. Need no truck with the Fccebook enforcers.


5 posted on 03/17/2020 6:53:24 PM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obam_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: yesthatjallen

What do you mean, “bug”? Can’t we get a decent conspiracy theory out of this?


6 posted on 03/17/2020 6:54:11 PM PDT by TChad (The MSM, having nuked its own credibility, is now bombing the rubble.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Remember the Communist Chinese employ a literal army of trolls that get paid by the Communist Chinese Party to post positive things about the regime and send complaints about anything negative about the regime or Communist China.


7 posted on 03/17/2020 6:56:01 PM PDT by Starcitizen (Communist China needs to be treated like the parish country it is. Send it back to 1971)
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To: PubliusMM

The Zuckerburgvirus strikes again.


8 posted on 03/17/2020 6:59:08 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (BLACK LIVES MAGA)
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To: yesthatjallen

oh I bet ‘a bug’


9 posted on 03/17/2020 7:15:07 PM PDT by bboop (does not suffer fools gladly)
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To: yesthatjallen
technocracy.news/zuckerberg-pledges-to-help-china-censor-facebook-content/
10 posted on 03/17/2020 7:23:58 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: yesthatjallen

We have a malti-poo named Bug.

She swears she knows nothing about it.


11 posted on 03/17/2020 8:14:19 PM PDT by moonhawk (I need a new tagline.)
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To: yesthatjallen

They “MISTAKENLY” marked 3 of my posts as “spam.” All 3 linked to articles about RESTRICTIONS ON MOVEMENT in the large Demonrat-controlled Blue cities. Fakebook does NOT want this news to get out to the Red states.


12 posted on 03/17/2020 8:46:51 PM PDT by backwoods-engineer (Politics is the continuation of war by other means. --Clausewitznd)
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To: backwoods-engineer

This hyped panic will fade before the few weeks prior to the elections.

Decisions never to resume booking conventions or trade shows in places that become draconian bedlams? That’s gonna linger for years.


13 posted on 03/17/2020 8:54:58 PM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: yesthatjallen

Vice President of integrity?


14 posted on 03/17/2020 9:59:56 PM PDT by HIDEK6 ( God bless Donald Trump.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Yup. Among my “Spam” posts was one that said “Do Not Flush Anything But Bath Tissue Down Your Commode”.

A Dear FB and FReeper FRiend Debbie had 9 posts removed.

Something is fishy in Denmark.


15 posted on 03/17/2020 10:21:26 PM PDT by CaptainPhilFan
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To: yesthatjallen
I posted the Alabama department of health numbers on the corona virus, and Facebook blocked it as spam.
16 posted on 03/18/2020 2:11:12 AM PDT by political1 (Love your neighbors)
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To: yesthatjallen

Yeah, I had the “bug” remove 1 of my posts. Just happened to be 1 that was critical of the San Fran sicko bastids.


17 posted on 03/18/2020 2:21:07 AM PDT by vpintheak (Leftists are full of "Love, peace" and bovine squeeze.)
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To: yesthatjallen

I’m getting sue happy lawyer from Cancer riddled ZANTAC, J&J Baby powder, and electric scooters, half dozen Dem political ads. I report them along with a plethora of shoe ads. But not the BP MEDS or METFORMIN which have same cancer agent. Judging by the nearly identical side effects all are chinese generics.


18 posted on 03/18/2020 8:15:40 AM PDT by GailA (Intractable Pain, a Subset of Chronic pain Last a Life TIME at Level 10.)
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