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Shadow banning isn’t really something used in private messages, no?
by bobthechef 5y ago
Shadow banning isn’t really something used in private messages, no?
- atatatat 5y agoApparently by Facebook.
- kaladin-jasnah 5y agoWeChat does it (as well) [0]. [0] https://citizenlab.ca/2020/05/wechat-surveillance-explained/ https://citizenlab.ca/2020/05/wechat-surveillance-explained/
- mgiampapa 5y agoHackernews does shadowbanning as well.
- bagels 5y agoIt was done at the unnamed social network I worked at, over 10 years ago. To combat spam, mostly. People posting links to scam sites to watch sports games.
- btbuilder 5y agoWhen faced with software/malware that was appending links to user's instant messages back in 2005, back-end code to silently drop the user's messages was put in place. This was a messaging service that had ~200 million users.
- herbst 5y agoFacebook is doing this for a while. Pretty sure they always checked privately sent links. Some years ago I sent a .tk domain to a few friends and it got shadow banner after a few minutes (it was a harmless meme site).