Officer Zuckerberg Strikes Again and Germany

I have had this blog since 2018. There have been plenty of times when I have shared links to blogs on Facebook. I’ve never had an issue, until Tuesday.

On Tuesday, you may recall, I did a Happy Birthday post about singer Emily West. She and I are friends on Facebook, so I posted the link to the blog and tagged her in it. Less than 5 minutes after I posted it, Facebook removed the post. They sent me a notification and told me why.

First of all, they have never flagged a blog post as spa, before. Second, I didn’t “disguise a link to get clicks.” Lastly, I certainly didn’t “try to get likes, follows, shares or videos views in a misleading way.” It was a blog post. It certainly is no different from some of the links others post on there, and a whole lot less deceptive than some of the crap I see posted. Not to mention the countless “sponsored” posts they shove into my newsfeed.

This really rubbed me the wrong way. It was an innocent post with a song. What’s the deal? I requested a review, which you know isn’t going to do anything. No human is looking at it. I’m sure they have it go through some sort of computer AI thing and it will uphold the decision. Whatever.

I tried to report a friends account who had been hacked recently. The entire feed by the hacker was some scam about money or bitcoin or getting $7000 deposited into your account. I reported it, and they said it was perfectly ok. Unreal!

On another weird note, I got a message here on Word Press that my stats were “booming.” I decided to check it out. Yesterday, my blog was a hit in Germany apparently. I had 300 more hits than normal and the vast majority of them came from Germany. So, Hallo and Guten Tag to my German readers!