Despite insisting it is not a media company and is not in the business of making editorial judgments, Facebook is all too happy to censor user-generated content. Facebook censors operate under a cloak of anonymity, with no accountability to users. Facebook Auto Censorship H ave you ever tried to post a comment and got a message saying, " U nable to post comment - try again?" Or "An error occurred . Please Try again in a few minutes"? And no matter how long you wait, you keep getting the same error? H ave you ever had a Facebook post rejected becau se of an "unsafe link"? The link could be a web page or an image that Facebook decides is "unsafe." H ave you ever had a Facebook post rejected becau se Facebook decided your comment "seems irrelevant or inappropriate"? T he primary way Facebook flags and takes down content is via automated algorithms. As with any automat ed system examining content , ...
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