Facebook marked coronavirus posts as spam

Information on the coronavirus by Facebook It runs like wildfire and every day there are hundreds of data and a lot of information, but it seems that now the social network is suffering a major setback because it is marking the posts about this virus as spam.

The situation has been reported by the affected person, a man named Mike Godwin, in his personal Twitter account, detailing that an article made by himself has been classified as spam since it will go against the terms of the social network.

This is a publication made in Time os Israel and that, when trying to publish it on his Facebook wall, the owner of this article has found that Facebook has thrown it back so that he could not publish it and, therefore, nobody I saw it.

An antispam system error

Despite the fact that the tweet was barely popular on Twitter, it seems that Facebook is pending this social network because just half an hour after the publication by the person affected by the article, a person in charge of Facebook gave the solution why that happened.

That person simply commented that he had left because of a error in the system used by Facebook to detect all kinds of spam, which means that it was something very specific and could have happened with any other article about the coronavirus or other information.

That is to say, it is not a human error on the part of some moderator who reviews content on Facebook, but of the antispam filter, a bug that is already being fixed and that it should be able to work properly very soon so that it can be published as before.

The error could have affected many other publications about coronavirus, so if this is your case, you should know that it is not that Facebook It is vetoing you, but it is a small mismatch in the algorithm that is in charge of fighting against spam on the social network and that is being solved.

In any case, whenever you want to find out about the coronavirus or other information, remember to always go to official, verified sources and the reference media, they are the best option to be correctly informed at all times.

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