It came to our attention yesterday when we were sharing WUWT articles, that Facebook now treats WUWT articles as “abusive”. Apparently this is a new tactic of the warmists to abuse the FB abuse process in order to suppress free speech. WUWT readers have reported that this has also started happening on other skeptic blogs with their articles.
Until Anthony gets back, when we can see about a more permanent solution, we want to encourage our readers to all share WUWT articles via your Facebook accounts, and when FB gives you “this is an abusive site” pop-up, as seen in the graphic above, to click the “Let us know” appeal link to submit an appeal. Hopefully if FB staff start seeing enough appeals from enough of our readers, that they will realize that their system is being gamed by our opponents.
While on FB, we encourage you to join the WUWT FB group.
UPDATE: As of this moment, new WUWT articles are posting to FB without the abuse warning, but anything from yesterday or days prior is getting the warning and requires an appeal. Apparently whoever has been up to these games hasn’t gotten online yet today. We still encourage our readers to help ensure that WUWT articles are able to be shared on FB without interference, and to ensure that other skeptic blogs are also able to be published on Facebook. It’s clear that the warmists are engaging in guerrilla tactics now.
Welcome to the underhanded pursuit of bandwagon science, Anthony.
Darwinists have been doing stuff like this to any critics of their dogma for many years.
Same game, different bandwagon.
WUWT abusive? Superficially, this makes no sense – WUWT is a science blog…how is science “abusive”. Let us try some logic:
Science (the topic of this website), is a branch of knowledge or study dealing with a body of facts or truths systematically arranged and showing the operation of general laws.
So, Science is concerned with facts and truth.
WUWT is concerned with facts and truth.
Additionally, the truth hurts.
Things that hurt are abusive.
WUWT is concerned with the truth and the truth hurts, therefore WUWT is abusive.
Now I get it. /sarc off
{snicker} Yet another reason not to use Narcissist Book.
It is important to remember that this problem appears to be caused by Facebook users, not Facebook itself. Appeals should be polite, short, and clear.
Tried to post this page to FB and got the abuse message…and “let them know” as requested. I’ll continue to monitor and let FB know…sheesh!
Stories like this confirm why I avoid Facebook or any social networking site like the plague.
Google does not own Facebook. Mark Zuckerberg is not employed by Google.
I’m not too sure if I should get worked up over trendy Facebook, but I submitted a complaint just the same.
What else can anyone expect from FB when they are going to host Obama at a special event on FB???
The facebook group for WUWT is now at 120 members (after only 2 hours of existence). We are seeing a few reports of the abuse pop-up and about an equal number getting through, likely FB is approving one article at a time.
Just posted this post, seems OK so far
I would never join Facebook for any reason. Sorry.
Signed up, good Idea, it will help disseminate stuff quicker imho.
Cheers
Just tried to share this article through my Facebook account, and hit the “Abuse Wall.” I submit an appeal, but won’t hold my breath. Why is it that seemingly all of the massive tech companies (e.g. Facebook, Google), always seem to heavily lean towards the Kool-Aid Drinking section of CAGW?
I’ve tried three articles in the last hour and all were successfully shared on facebook
“Apparently whoever has been up to these games hasn’t gotten online yet today.”
Maybe their union contract with their Leftist employer prohibits them from “working” on Saturday to agitate on behalf of the CAGW fraud?
Meantime…
Even NOAA’s demonstrably warm biased data show a 25 year USA cooling trend for the month of March AND for YTD:
http://sbvor.blogspot.com/2011/04/march-update-current-usa-cooling-trend.html
I posted a few links to “skeptic” articles on FB. I am no longer able to post any links of any sort in a comment, not even in a comment to my own posting on my own wall.
I don’t do Facebook.
I don’t collect friends like a little child collecting shiny pebbles along the shore.
I am proud to say that I have no ‘friends’.
I must be getting old. I would have bet good money that you would find precious few WUWT readers with accounts on Face Book.
[There are over 165 members joined the new WUWT group on FB today just in the last 3 hours. Our WUWT fan page on FB has something like 1,600+ fans “liking” WUWT. – MikeL]
I have found no use for facebook, twitter or google. I have a telephone, internet, email and car. I can see and contact all the friends I need. I don’t like the risks involved in using these sites and would suggest that you do the same. Think about why you use those sites and whether you really need to.
The post by crosspatch above shows that Facebook’s actions are planned and deliberate, IMHO.
I post via twitter and have had no interference.
Colin in Mission BC says:
April 9, 2011 at 11:13 am
Why is it that seemingly all of the massive tech companies (e.g. Facebook, Google), always seem to heavily lean towards the Kool-Aid Drinking section of CAGW?
It’s called MONEY and Favours.
[Colin, they are in Sillycon Valley, California, land of fruits and nuts. – MikeL]
While I suspect that the Facebook team would agree with “the warm side” I think the block are automated. Some greenie is either playing games or figures that “the word” is more important than free speech or other annoying considerations.
I suspect FB might have to whitelist WUWT or otherwise manually tweak the system in order to remove the blocks and I have zero idea of how easy/convenient/likely that is.
This is one of the hazards of user rated systems, they’re too easy to game.
That said, FB, like anything else, has it’s uses.
To all my American Friends. You have an enviable position in having enshrined within law, the right to freedom of speech. Facebook has taken an action that seems to ignore that. Fight to maintain that right!
There is a half remembered quote from someone I completely forget, but the sentiments are sound. “Sir, I totally disagree with everything you have said, but by God, I will fight to the death to uphold your right to say it!”
This explains why several greenie site are switching to a FB login for their comment system. See Treehugger dot com