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Facebook blocks certain news articles; transparency?

Users of Facebook were unable to share certain news articles from publications like The Wire and Faking News. Some of these were without an error message, while another one displayed messages like “The content you’re trying to share includes a link that our security systems detected to be unsafe, , please remove this link to continue”. A user trying to post a Faking News article got the error, “the action attempted has been deemed abusive or is otherwise disallowed." Facebook was randomly blocking a Faking News URL, so I decided to check their 'help' community and this is one help https://t.co/0HlGsFRG5f — Rahul Roushan (@rahulroushan) November 19, 2015 .@rahulroushan yes did try to share this link on my fb page and got this error message. https://t.co/BbZPOppLeg pic.twitter.com/8XlBhV9i1W — Shetty (@Sharanyashettyy) November 19, 2015 For The Wire, a particular article titled When Mr. Modi Went to London disappeared from Facebook despite over 1,000 Facebook shares, while some others were unable to post it, but was back in a couple of hours. A Facebook spokesperson told MediaNama that “the content was mistakenly captured by our spam filter and has now been restored. We are sorry for the error and inconvenience caused.” When we tried posting The Wire and another article to Facebook, it worked. However, it is unclear if other content was also blocked for the same reason. Attn techies, piece posted by 1k+ on FB vanished from everyone's TL. No change in URL. https://t.co/njI45C2VX7 Possible cause? Remedies? — Siddharth (@svaradarajan) November…

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