The more I’m learning about the social media removals of quote-unquote “inauthentic” content, the more disturbing the story gets. This latest round - which zapped demonstrably real domestic voices - seems a significant escalation.
@bmcpburgh @fpturner@mtaibbi@LOLBeReasonable These aren't bots they removed. Months ago we all had to verify our ID, address, phone, and other details if we had a page with a large reach. I doubt any of the pages removed were run by fake accounts.
@bmcpburgh @fpturner@mtaibbi@LOLBeReasonable Meanwhile, there are a ton of leftist pages that have been repeatedly fact checked and found false, have/had fake accounts, and weren't affected by the purge at all.
@bmcpburgh @fpturner@mtaibbi I cant speak for the right. But I know everything going on in the facebook left. The three biggest affected people on the left were me, chris metcalf @LOLBeReasonable, and the guys at reverb press. None of us were sharing lies. None of us were on snopes, politifact, etc.
@LOLBeReasonable Neither of us could have guessed that they were coming for 'page networks.' I dont think I'll ever be able to wrap my mind around that.
@LOLBeReasonable I saw changes coming a long time ago and put everything under an account with my real name. Wife changed back to her real name. Took all fakes off my pages. Verified with ID, address, phone. Still got the axe. Tried warning everyone. FB is coming for the rest.
@patrickgbrown@RandyDeSoto Not that the western journal cares about lib pages, but they deleted these from me:
Impeach trump-impeach pence-keep impeaching (650k)
Lock him up (450k)
Angry Americans (450k)
Proud snowflakes (250k)
Liberal mountain (180k)
Far left veteran (75k)
@JaneLytv Impeach trump-impeach pence-keep impeaching (650k)
Lock him up (450k)
Angry Americans (450k)
Proud snowflakes (250k)
Liberal mountain (190k)
Far left veteran (75k)
@JaneLytv Yeah, and righties are acting like it's all them. I lost 2 million leftist followers a month ago-the start of this purge. I had the two fastest growing pages on the left. Another guy lost 2 million leftist followers and he was probably the second fastest growing page manager
@nicolejames@banditelli Same bs reasons that these people are getting. Spam and fake accounts. Almost every page owner on facebook has at least one backup account. I never posted spam. They hit me first, a month ago. I thought it was personal. Now I see it wasnt.
@banditelli Those were last month, my pages. Everyone shrugged and moved on. Now this happened. More to come. Only thing left soon will be big corporate outlets.