I Got Censored By Facebook!

So overnight one of my posts got ripped off of my Facebook page!

"Your post goes against our Community Standards"

So what horrible deed did I do?

Why it was so horrible what I posted... it was a debate about a bill before the CT legislature SB144.
That's right it was an opinion article in the CT Mirror the article by a doctor who wrote testimony for the Public Health Committee about a 17 patient of hers.

The bill, SB 144 AN ACT CONCERNING DECEPTIVE ADVERTISING PRACTICES OF LIMITED SERVICES PREGNANCY CENTERS.
To prohibit deceptive advertising practices by limited services pregnancy centers.

And the CT Mirror reposted her testimony before the committee and that is what Facebook found against community standards.

I can see deleting posts about “fake news” and I can see deleting post with derogatory language or hate speech but a discussion on a bill before a state legislature?

I doubt very much if a human actually looked at the post, my guess is that it was an AI that decided on the fate of my post and that in lies the problem.

I wrote about AI last fall and how it will effect trans people and how it can be discriminatory and I imagine that Facebook AI saw keywords that triggered the censorship. I believe that is what happened to my post.

So the question is, is Facebook using a shotgun approach to censorship. If it contains certain keyword to delete a post? Are they using AI without human oversight?

What I don’t like is that they are stiffing debate on an important legislation.

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Update 11:30AM

I had several people post on my Facebook page tell me that Facbook is having a problem with their AI… no kidding Sherlock.

Facebook was marking legitimate news articles about the coronavirus as spam due to a software bug
The company is fixing the posts and bringing them back
The Verge
By Jay Peters
March 17, 2020

Facebook started marking some posts linking to information and articles about the coronavirus and COVID-19 as spam, as observed by one Verge reporter and many users on Twitter on Tuesday evening.

The issue was due to a “bug in an anti-spam system,” according to Guy Rosen, Facebook’s vice president of integrity. Rosen said the company began working on a fix as soon as discovering the issue.
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Following publication of The Verge’s report, Rosen said Facebook had resolved the issue and restored the affected posts. “We’ve restored all the posts that were incorrectly removed, which included posts on all topics — not just those related to COVID-19,” Rosen explained. According to Facebook, the issue was with an automated moderation tool and was not related to any changes to its moderator workforce.