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Facebook Flags Linux Topics As 'Cybersecurity Threats'
Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2025 7:56 pm
by CharlesV
Ha! Guess FB decided to fight back at someone saying that FB was a virus ! lol...
https://linux.slashdot.org/story/25/01/ ... ty-threats
Anyone seeing issues on the FB MX Page ?
Re: Facebook Flags Linux Topics As 'Cybersecurity Threats'
Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2025 8:03 pm
by m_pav
Yes, our FB group page seems to have lost posts associated with FB user Dan Nanni, though I'm not sure if he posted them or somebody else tacked them in. His FB account is still up and running though.
Re: Facebook Flags Linux Topics As 'Cybersecurity Threats'
Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2025 11:28 pm
by Stevo
I guess the broligarchs are now pushing MS's old line that Linux is a virus.
https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issu ... 7#sitenews
Re: Facebook Flags Linux Topics As 'Cybersecurity Threats'
Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2025 11:35 pm
by CharlesV
So much for the latest "free speech" policy on FB |-/
Re: Facebook Flags Linux Topics As 'Cybersecurity Threats'
Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2025 12:41 am
by siamhie
I recall just posting the link to DW was forbidden but that was quite a while back on the FB MX Linux group.
Maybe FB is at it again.
I just made a comment on my page and posted the link directly to DW and FB allowed it. hmm?
Re: Facebook Flags Linux Topics As 'Cybersecurity Threats'
Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2025 4:58 am
by chrispop99
I can confirm that Facebook is removing posts from our group if they mention DW, all completely innocently, and dating back to more than a year. They are flagged as security threats.
I have appealed two of them without success.
Chris
Re: Facebook Flags Linux Topics As 'Cybersecurity Threats'
Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2025 4:59 am
by chrispop99
siamhie wrote: Tue Jan 28, 2025 12:41 am
I recall just posting the link to DW was forbidden but that was quite a while back on the FB MX Linux group.
Maybe FB is at it again.
I just made a comment on my page and posted the link directly to DW and FB allowed it. hmm?
It can take as long as a year before a post is flagged! All of them have been more than a few weeks.
Chris
Re: Facebook Flags Linux Topics As 'Cybersecurity Threats'
Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2025 9:13 am
by siamhie
chrispop99 wrote: Tue Jan 28, 2025 4:59 am
siamhie wrote: Tue Jan 28, 2025 12:41 am
I recall just posting the link to DW was forbidden but that was quite a while back on the FB MX Linux group.
Maybe FB is at it again.
I just made a comment on my page and posted the link directly to DW and FB allowed it. hmm?
It can take as long as a year before a post is flagged! All of them have been more than a few weeks.
Chris
Typical FB police. A couple of years ago I was given a 24 hour ban for a post I made to a private/non-searchable group that FB had deleted four years earlier.
How are they gone to punish me for a post to a group that doesn't exist anymore. hahaha