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Home / News / Science News / Why Facebook is marking legitimate posts as spam
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    Why Facebook is marking legitimate posts as spam

    Shubham Sharma
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    Shubham Sharma
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    Last updated on Mar 18, 2020, 11:47 am
    Why Facebook is marking legitimate posts as spam
  • With the outbreak of coronavirus, people have resorted to social distancing and spending most of their time on social media, games, and OTT apps.

    The plan helps with staying safe, but these gaming and social media platforms appear to be cracking with increasing traffic.

    First, Xbox Live went down and now a Facebook bug is marking legit posts as spam.

    Here's more about it.

  • In this article
    Posts being marked as spam Struggle to share about COVID-19, flurry of complaints Here's one of the many complaints Facebook's VP blamed it on a bug Later, Rosen announced issue has been fixed
  • Issue

    Posts being marked as spam

    Posts being marked as spam
  • Over the past few hours, a number of Facebook users, including this writer, witnessed the weird case of legitimate posts being marked spam.

    The problem largely revolved around posts linking to information and articles related to coronavirus disease COVID-19 but there were also cases when other news stories from mainstream publications like HuffPost were flagged as spam, with their reach being restricted.

  • Impact

    Struggle to share about COVID-19, flurry of complaints

  • The impact of the problem was such that Facebook users, particularly reporters/researchers/academics, were unable to share important information on COVID-19 with the general public.

    A flurry of complaints regarding the issue surfaced on Twitter, with people calling out the social media giant for censoring information about a disease that has infected 2 lakh, killed nearly 8,000 and still continues to spread.

  • Twitter Post

    Here's one of the many complaints

  • Something really weird is happening on @Facebook. A bunch of coronavirus posts from good sources like Atlantic and Politico are being flagged as spam. Happening to me and others. I'm the moderator of a huge community group, vetting medical info 15 hours a day. FB, don't do this!

    — Steve Silberman (@stevesilberman) March 17, 2020
  • Acknowledgement

    Facebook's VP blamed it on a bug

    Facebook's VP blamed it on a bug
  • While many claimed that Facebook's bots aren't capable enough to handle content moderation with less human oversight (due to COVID-19), Guy Rosen, the social network's VP of Integrity, said the issue had happened due to a bug.

    "We are on this," Rosen said, noting that "this is a bug in an anti-spam system, unrelated to any changes in our content moderator workforce."

  • Fix

    Later, Rosen announced issue has been fixed

  • Nearly two hours after acknowledging the glitch, Rosen tweeted out that the issue has been fixed.

    "We've restored all the posts that were incorrectly removed, which included posts on all topics - not just those related to COVID-19," the tweet read. "This was an issue with an automated system that removes links to abusive websites, but incorrectly removed a lot of other posts too."

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