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Got my comments shadowbanned on a local city Facebook group for posting a link to the public meeting minutes
I live in Austin and there's a neighborhood group that claims to be all about open discussion. Last month I tried to share a direct link to the city's official page showing the actual zoning commission meeting video. The post showed up for me but nobody else could see it. I only figured it out when a friend texted me asking why I deleted it. Took three tries and a screenshot from a burner account to confirm they were filtering it. Learned that some admins just manually flag links that make them look bad. Anyone else run into this fake transparency on civic groups?
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patricia2621mo ago
Beat you to it, that's actually a "ghost ban" not a shadowban.
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valc911mo ago
Nah, they're pretty much the same thing in practice. Ghost ban just sounds like a newer term for the same trick platforms pull where your posts show up to you but nobody else.
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gavin3651mo ago
Wait, hold up. There's actually a difference between the two? I've been calling them shadowbans this whole time, thought ghost ban was just a cooler way of saying the same thing. So what exactly makes a ghost ban different then?
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