Confirmed – Facebook has shadow banned this web site
My Occupy Propaganda page on Facebook was shadow banned beginning about December 15th. Read on for the update – and confirmation.
My Occupy Propaganda page on Facebook was shadow banned beginning about December 15th. Read on for the update – and confirmation.
A web site purports to determine if your Twitter account has been shadow banned.
I searched for #shadowbanned on Twitter and found this: My account has the default settings. Twitter chose to hide the subject matter which turns out to be … Which seems to prove the point. Geesh.
Shadow banning is common on social media, including newspaper comments. Rather than outright ban a comment, the media publisher hides the comment from everyone except the person who wrote it. In this way, the comment author is unaware that they have been censored.
We do not know much about PragerU but a situation involving that group and Facebook confirms that Facebook does indeed shadow ban groups and pages.
Facebook says they made an error in shadow banning the group’s posts and videos and has since restored them. But in the process, they confirmed they are using shadow bans.