Facebook censors pipeline protestors posts/ video

[ghostsinthemachine]

Last edited Thu Sep 15, 2016, 08:03 PM - Edit history (1)

Facebook has admitted to censoring a video posted by activists protesting the Dakota Access pipeline, with the social network blaming the removal on its automated spam filter. The live stream video, published on Tuesday by the media collective Unicorn Riot, showed police arresting around two dozen protesters at a Dakota pipeline site. Unicorn Riot published a link to the live stream on its Facebook page, but the URL was blocked and other users were unable to share it. The link has since been restored, and a Facebook spokesperson apologized for the removal in a statement to Motherboard.

In a statement to Antimedia, a member of Unicorn Riot said that the video was censored "shortly before two of our journalists were arrested onsite," adding that posts and comments that contained the URL "triggered popup security alerts." According to the collective, Facebook's debugger said that the link violated the site's "community standards."

More here http://www.theverge.com/2016/9/15/12926058/facebook-dakota-pipeline-video-censorship-protest

[melman]

1. If it was the spam filter

then they didn't admit to censoring it. Who writes this stuff?

[malthaussen]

2. That's "censors," not "censures."

Although maybe they censure them too, who knows?

-- Mal

[ghostsinthemachine]

3. Stupid spell checker😶 nt