Facebook is actively removing postings I'm making today.

Muro deGrizeco :toad:

Trying to understand an online property, we make dubious models in our heads and use poor analogies.

"Twitter is a town square"

William Lindsey :toad:

@murodegrizeco Yes. Ludicrously, we did use to speak of Twitter as a "town square," overlooking that it was (and still is) a property owned by super-rich people and could at any moment be put to whatever maleficent purposes they wanted to apply to it.

William Lindsey :toad:

@vfrmedia Yes, you have great examples to back up your argument.

William Lindsey :toad:

@snigdha It does, indeed. And it's not a serving-humanity agenda but an exploiting-humanity agenda.

William Lindsey :toad:

@murodegrizeco I've noticed that a lot of the clearly fake and suspect accounts on Facebook do nothing but that — post photos of kittens, flowers, exotic scenes in exotic cities. They go totally unharrassed by FB, though they're obviously fake accounts.

William Lindsey :toad:

@LPerry2 @oof So I've concluded. And I think the reason probably is that someone or several someones monitors my postings and has reported me to FB in an attempt to try to silence me.

William Lindsey :toad:

@wood5y Yes, that was definitely one of the spirituals in which a message was encoded that would be heard loudly and clearly by enslaved people singing the song from field to field — the message that someone was escaping — but would go right over the heads of slaveholders and overseers.

William Lindsey :toad:

@wood5y

William Lindsey :toad:

@MishaVanMollusq Clever of you to think to do that. You just never know who someone on social media really is, do you, unless he/she has made their identity public?

William Lindsey :toad:

@partnumber2 Yes, I know the word in that sense, as an adjective. Hadn't seen it used as a noun before. That's a clever use.

Muro deGrizeco :toad:

@wdlindsy

Interesting.

Some months back, I recall hearing about Meta experimenting with fake participants in their online groups.

One incident reported had a mom who was not a real person. But was relating a pretend parenting experience.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.voanews.com/amp/meta-s-new-ai-agents-confuse-facebook-users-/7576420.html