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Re: Facebook Flags Linux Topics As Cybersecurity Threats

From vallor <vallor@cultnix.org>
Newsgroups comp.misc
Subject Re: Facebook Flags Linux Topics As Cybersecurity Threats
Date 2025-01-28 19:57 +0000
Message-ID <lvsr4pFvddU3@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
References <vnb13n$1tmna$1@dont-email.me>

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On Tue, 28 Jan 2025 16:37:12 -0000 (UTC), Ben Collver
<bencollver@tilde.pink> wrote in <vnb13n$1tmna$1@dont-email.me>:

> Facebook Flags Linux Topics As Cybersecurity Threats
> ====================================================
> By Mark Tyson published 27 January 2025
> 
> DistroWatch is one of the largest affected organizations.
> 
> Facebook is banning posts that mention various Linux-related topics,
> sites, or groups. Some users may also see their accounts locked or
> limited when posting Linux topics. Major open-source operating system
> news, reviews, and discussion site DistroWatch is at the center of the
> controversy, as it seems to be the first to have noticed that Facebook's
> Community Standards had blackballed it.
> 

[snip]

It's got to be another one of their crazy AI snafu's -- or incompetence.

There's actual Meta code _in_ Linux!  

<https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/net/ethernet/meta?h=v6.13>

And I understand Meta is a member of the Linux Foundation.

Just plain nuts!

> If you have noticed any other Linux-related domains, links, or phrases
> that Facebook has banned, please tell us in the comments section.
> 
> From: <https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/facebook-flags-
> linux-topics-as-cybersecurity-threats-posts-and-users-being-blocked>

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Facebook Flags Linux Topics As Cybersecurity Threats Ben Collver <bencollver@tilde.pink> - 2025-01-28 16:37 +0000
  Re: Facebook Flags Linux Topics As Cybersecurity Threats vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2025-01-28 19:57 +0000
    Re: Facebook Flags Linux Topics As Cybersecurity Threats Ben Collver <bencollver@tilde.pink> - 2025-02-03 17:53 +0000
  Re: Facebook Flags Linux Topics As Cybersecurity Threats not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2025-01-29 07:04 +1000
    Re: Facebook Flags Linux Topics As Cybersecurity Threats D <nospam@example.net> - 2025-01-29 14:45 +0100

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