Editorial: Facebook wrecked this news outlet's account. It's hard to trust social media | Opinion
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The attention-grabbing senators are uncharacteristically silent when it looks like the progressive Kansas Reflector is being silenced by Facebook. | Opinion
Thursday morning, the staff of The Kansas Reflector got a jolt: Without warning or explanation, every link to their website was erased from their Facebook page. And it wasn’t only them — the same went for every other user who had shared their content.
Creators who run popular accounts have long suspected that social networks suppress their posts when they get political — ‘shadowbanning’ them. Thursday morning, the staff of The Kansas Reflector got a jolt: Without warning or explanation, every link to their website was erased from their Faceboo
On Thursday morning, the staff of The Kansas Reflector got a jolt: Without warning or explanation, every link to their website was erased from their Facebook page . And it wasn’t only them – the same went for every other user who had shared their content.