Facebook Flags NY POST Political Article 'Spam'...
FACEBOOK FLAGS
NEW YORK POST ARTICLE ABOUT TRUMP VOTERS AS ‘SPAM’
By Peter Hasson | Reporter 712:16 PM
08/23/2018 4
Facebook appears to have flagged a New York Post article about supporters of
President Donald Trump as “spam.”
Post columnist Salena Zito published an article Wednesday evening
explaining why Trump supporters are unlikely to care about the criminal
convictions of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and former Trump
lawyer Michael Cohen.
Facebook removed Zito’s post after she
shared it on the website, she said Thursday.
“I’ve received nine separate messages from readers
telling me the same thing has happened to them,” Zito noted on Twitter.
So this is interesting…@facebook
took down my post of my reporting for the @nypost
— I’ve received nine separate messages from readers telling me the same thing
has happened to them. ‘sup @facebook
?nyp.st/2BDHd9K
Why Trump’s supporters won’t
care about Cohen and Manafort’s convictions
A Facebook spokeswoman issued a vague statement
attributing the incorrect mark to an unspecified “error.”
“An error affected our automated systems
today, which meant that some posts were incorrectly marked as spam. We’ve
identified the issue and worked to fix it. We apologize to everyone who’s been
affected,” the spokeswoman said.
Some of Zito’s readers reported receiving messages
from the social media company claiming the article looks “like spam and doesn’t
follow our Community Standards.” (RELATED: Facebook Plans To ‘Dial Up’ Suppression Of
Certain News Outlets)
Zito shared the example below with TheDCNF:
Readers of The Daily Caller in April were blocked from sharing a story on the
lost-and-found text messages between FBI agents Peter Strzok and Lisa Page.
Facebook blamed its “spam” algorithm for the suppression, which it said was in
error.
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