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Re:FB messenger silently censoring links, claims they were sent by bobthechef on Saturday August 28, 2021 @09:40PM (#28343307)
Shadow banning isn’t really something used in private messages, no?
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Re:FB messenger silently censoring links, claims they were sent by kaladin-jasnah on Saturday August 28, 2021 @10:41PM (#28343616)
WeChat does it (as well) [0].

[0] https://citizenlab.ca/2020/05/wechat-surveillance-explained/

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Re:FB messenger silently censoring links, claims they were sent by herbst on Sunday August 29, 2021 @07:21AM (#28345835)
Facebook 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).
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Re:FB messenger silently censoring links, claims they were sent by mgiampapa on Saturday August 28, 2021 @10:57PM (#28343693)
Hackernews does shadowbanning as well.
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Re:FB messenger silently censoring links, claims they were sent by bagels on Saturday August 28, 2021 @11:04PM (#28343731)
It 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.

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Re:FB messenger silently censoring links, claims they were sent by btbuilder on Sunday August 29, 2021 @03:22AM (#28344886)
When 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.
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Re:FB messenger silently censoring links, claims they were sent by atatatat on Saturday August 28, 2021 @09:57PM (#28343396)
Apparently by Facebook.
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