Facebook admitted it briefly blocked links to Wikileaks file check internal Democratic National Committee ( DNC ) email . The block seems to be the resultant of another algorithm accident that may have incorrectly determined the links to be malicious or spam .
Facebook Chief Security Officersaysthe company has fixed the erroneousness , after receive overweight criticism from WikiLeaks .
This is n’t the first time Facebook has unexpectedly block high visibility news case on the platform . sooner this calendar month , Facebook in short removed video show Philando Castile death , covered in blood , moments after being shot by a law officer . Prior to that , the companyadmittedto removing a meme circulate about convicted Stanford raper Brock Turner .
Facebook wants to be a reference for news program , but the company ’s algorithm keeps “ accidentally ” removing or restrict access to news stories on its platform . Not to mention that the company ’s sheer news stripe , which is meant to surface major intelligence event , has been dogged bycriticisms of biasand therevelationthat human “ curators”—not an algorithm as Facebook had claimed — were shoot and suppressing stories .
We ’ve reach out to Facebook and will update this story when we get word back .
Update 2025-04-15 8:18 Prime Minister EST : In a program line provide to Gizmodo , a instance said “ Like other services , our anti - spam system in brief flagged links to these documents as unsafe . We promptly right this error on Saturday evening . ”
[ NY Post ]
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