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Re:Facebook blocks sharing of critical Guardian article by tmalsburg2 on Friday September 28, 2018 @04:51PM (#18096968)
A spam-detection algorithm that doesn't whitelist pages like The Guardian? I have to say I find it hard to believe that they would be so incompetent.
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Re:Facebook blocks sharing of critical Guardian article by threeseed on Friday September 28, 2018 @05:09PM (#18097085)
Facebook can't be seen to be prioritising one news source over another.

So I can't imagine they have lists of any news sources and rely entirely on user signals to determine the quality of a source.

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Re:Facebook blocks sharing of critical Guardian article by _cereal on Friday September 28, 2018 @05:47PM (#18097323)
I second that.

An example: a few weeks ago I shared on my FB profile the Mozilla Foundation petition link for the EU copyright reform[1] and it was removed with this motivation:

"We removed this post because it looks like spam and doesn't follow our Community Standards."

[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2018/09/07/eu-copyright-r...

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Re:Facebook blocks sharing of critical Guardian article by debt on Friday September 28, 2018 @07:50PM (#18097904)
A whitelist? Huh? What is this the 90's?

I'm pretty sure the algorithms use something more intelligent than a whitelist. A whitelist would be a major loophole in a spam algorithm.

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Re:Facebook blocks sharing of critical Guardian article by tmalsburg2 on Friday September 28, 2018 @07:54PM (#18097919)
The evidence at hand casts doubt on the idea that the algorithm is very intelligent.
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