"When Facebook took down 559 Pages in October, the reasons for why each Page was removed were not made clear. [...] After looking into the historical Page data

"When Facebook took down 559 Pages in October, the reasons for why each Page was removed were not made clear. [...] After looking into the historical Page data I had collected back in September a second time at the end of October — nearly a decade’s worth of analytics for several of these Pages (shown below), I’d argue that for the some of the most prolific of the removed Pages, “censorship,” or the fact they might have posted inaccurate and/or misleading news articles and links at some point in the past were not the reason for their abrupt removal in October. The likely reason why several of the largest of these mostly conservative and politically fringe news Pages were taken down is because they appear to have been gaming the platform’s metrics for years. The pages I show in the following section had put up Facebook interaction numbers in the billions. Similarly, many of the videos consistently showed engagement in the tens of millions of views." https://medium.com/@d1gi/the-2018-facebook-midterms-part-iii-granular-enforcement-10f8f2d97501 https://medium.com/@d1gi/the-2018-facebook-midterms-part-iii...