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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That would be the Zuckerbug...
Yep, happened to me on my post about China closing all of their temporary hospitals.
Isn’t Zuck literally married to the Chinese? No one profits betting against America.
I had an innocuous post of a Coronavirus article banned. I just deleted the post. Need no truck with the Fccebook enforcers.
What do you mean, “bug”? Can’t we get a decent conspiracy theory out of this?
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.
The Zuckerburgvirus strikes again.
oh I bet ‘a bug’
We have a malti-poo named Bug.
She swears she knows nothing about it.
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.
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.
Vice President of integrity?
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.
Yeah, I had the “bug” remove 1 of my posts. Just happened to be 1 that was critical of the San Fran sicko bastids.
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.
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