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Tech companies and thin-skinned billionaires won't get the final word

The controversy began Thursday morning when users noticed that all links to the non-profit newspaper the Kansas Reflector had been flagged as a cybersecurity threat and their posts were removed.

Meta briefly blocked links to The Kansas Reflector, News From The States, and The Handbasket due to a “security error,” spokesperson Andy Stone said. The Handbasket writer Marisa Kabas says Meta wouldn’t give further details about the blocks or send a follow up notice to users who saw a security warning. Reflector readers noticed they were unable to share an op-ed critical of Facebook published Thursday. On Friday, The Verge was able to replicate the “Link not allowed” error on Threads...

Meta blocked a local paper that published a column criticizing Facebook. The tech giant said it was accidental.

The powerful social network cut the nonprofit Kansas Reflector off from its readers with no warning — and under suspicious circumstances. | Opinion

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Meta blocks a Kansas news site from Facebook and Threads after it posts an opinion piece criticizing the social network's downranking of climate-change topics.

The company says Friday afternoon that the blocks, which falsely labeled the links as spam, were due to "a security error" The post Meta Blocks Kansas Reflector and MSNBC Columnist Over Op-Ed Criticizing Facebook appeared first on TheWrap.

The company says Friday afternoon that the blocks, which falsely labeled the links as spam, were due to "a security error"