[madsmith]

Having worked at Facebook, albeit a long time ago. It’s far more likely that a conflict of events caused a false positive of an Automated spam system than Facebook giving a crap about privacy campaigns that hurt revenue.

But alas, we humans love our conspiracy theories because they tell a more interesting story.

[em-bee]

but in the end the outcome is the same. malicious or not, facebook blocks what it should not block and that in itself is the problem. it being a false positive is not an excuse. if they don't fix this it just shows that facebook doesn't care about false positives either.

[lolinder]

If Facebook could have a false positive rate of 0% and a false negative rate of 0%, they would absolutely make that happen. Unfortunately, due to the way statistics work, Facebook can pick its false positive rate or its false negative rate, but it's impossible to get to 0% false positives without just giving up on moderation altogether.

We're not talking about capital punishment here, we're talking about social media, and Facebook appears to have made the very reasonable decision that it's worth accidentally rate limiting some innocent accounts in order to keep spam lower than would otherwise be possible.

[wkat4242]

In this case some actual conspiracies have been ousted. Like when Cambridge Analytica used Facebook data to influence elections. There's a track record here.

Not saying this is true but sadly sometimes it is.

[tcfhgj]

Facebook has had many privacy scandals in the past.

And unfortunately, some conspiracy theories are true

[smrtinsert]

Never ascribe to malice what can be explained by incompetence

[xuhu]

And in every user-hostile campaign there is a checkbox that needs to be ticked: can we make it look like incompetence ?

[guax]

I agree. I don't think Facebook thinks for a second about privacy related issues.

[freedomben]

I love the EFF, but let's be honest: they're not a threat to Facebook. It's like the elephant thinking about the ant.

I would be overjoyed if someday that changes, but that still wouldn't be relevant to a flagging today.