Facebook is wrongly blocking some hyperlinks, including coronavirus info

Fb is suffering from a big malicious program in its Information Feed direct mail filter, causing URLs to skilled internet websites at the side of Medium, Buzzfeed, and USA These days to be blocked from being shared as posts or comments. The downside is obstructing shares of a couple of alternatively not all coronavirus-related content material subject material, while some unrelat…
Facebook is suffering from a massive bug in its News Feed spam filter, causing URLs to legitimate websites including Medium, Buzzfeed, and USA Today to be blocked from being shared as posts or comments. The issue is blocking shares of some but not all coronavirus-related content, while some unrelat…Original article
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  1. "Are those red notification dots on your Facebook home screen driving you crazy? Sick of Facebook Marketplace wasting your screen space? Now you can control what appears in the Facebook apps navigation bar thanks to a new option called Shortcuts Bar Settings". (November 11, 2019)
  2. "If I watch a Story cross-posted from Instagram to Facebook on either of the apps, it should appear as watched at the back of the Stories row on the other app". (January 23, 2020)
  3. "There’s a strategic cost to the defection of Visa, Stripe, eBay, and more from the Facebook-led cryptocurrency Libra Association. They’re not just names dropping off a list. Each potentially made Libra more useful, ubiquitous, or reputable". (October 13, 2019)
  4. "Despite ongoing public relations crises, Facebook kept growing in Q3 2019, demonstrating that media backlash does not necessarily equate to poor business performance". (October 30, 2019)
  5. "Facebook has diverted from its policy of not fact-checking politicians in order to prevent the spread of potentially harmful coronavirus misinformation from Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro". (March 31, 2020)
  6. "Are we really doing this again? After the pivot to video. After Instant Articles. After news was deleted from the News Feed. Once more, Facebook dangles extra traffic, and journalism outlets leap through its hoop and into its cage. Tomorrow, Facebook will unveil its News tab". (October 25, 2019)
  7. "Shareholders have repeatedly tried to oust Facebooks chairman Mark Zuckerberg. The board has repeatedly rejected that demand. Outside investors are unlikely to get much help with that push from Facebooks newest board member: Dropbox co-founder and CEO Drew Houston". (February 3, 2020)
  8. "Facebook plans to challenge Europe’s top court, which today ruled that EU countries can order Facebook to globally remove content that violates local laws". (October 4, 2019)
  9. "The Chinese government has been removing criticism of its coronavirus response from apps like Weibo, the local equivalent of Twitter. But before it can, that content is being saved, decentralized, and highlighted thanks to Arweaves Permaweb". (March 5, 2020)
  10. "Permitting falsehood in political advertising would work if we had a model democracy, but we don’t. Not only are candidates dishonest, but voters aren’t educated, and the media isn’t objective. And now, hyperlinks turn lies into donations and donations into louder lies. The checks don’t balance". (October 14, 2019)
  11. "Its suspiciously convenient that Facebook already fulfills most of the regulatory requirements its asking governments to lay on the rest of the tech industry". (February 17, 2020)
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