A few hours ago, Tyler Cowen had a post in which he gave a translation of a statement made by economists in favor of Brazilian censorship of X. One of the signers was MIT economist Daron Acemoglu.
So I shared Tyler’s post on Facebook, with a line I added: “Et tu, Acemoglu?”
One minute later, Facebook took it down, informing me that, “This goes against our Community Standards on spam.”
I clicked on the rule and couldn’t see anything that applied.
Maybe, I thought, someone at Facebook or, since it was so quick, some algorithm, was programmed to say, “Don’t say anything negative about Acemoglu.”
So I accepted the decision and decided just to post a link to Tyler’s post, with no commentary by me. A minute later, Facebook told me that they had taken down my post.
So it probably wasn’t about Acemoglu. Now I wonder whether it was about its competitor, X.
When Facebook took down my post about the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, I took a screenshot of the rejection and posted that. Facebook's algorithms can't read a screenshot (at least I don't think they can) and by posting the rejection others on Facebook will learn about Facebooks' screwy rules.
I dislike Facebook for a number of reasons and this is one of them.
Very clever rhyming initial post David!
More evidence that folks should migrate off of FB?