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Facebook has been silently hiding messages containing targeted links for at least a decade. I had multiple reports of censoring people discussing my depaywalli
by nullc 5y ago
Facebook has been silently hiding messages containing targeted links for at least a decade.
I had multiple reports of censoring people discussing my depaywalling of a large cache of public domain historical scholarly papers [1], and went and checked for myself. Messages which included the link to the documents were reported as delivered but not actually delivered.
I believe they may have started it at the time of one of the high profile wikileaks document dumps.
This experiences is part of why I and my partner have since refused to use their services.
[1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2011/07/swartz-supporter-dumps-18592-jstor-docs-on-the-pirate-bay/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2011/07/swartz-supporter...