This morning we told you about Trump’s social media chief getting banned from publishing public messages on his very own Facebook page.
Trump got involved by retweeting an article about it:
I will be looking into this! #StopTheBias https://t.co/ZTWQolvmdM
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 19, 2019
Well in the last couple of hours Facebook freed Dan Scavino and apologized for the inconvenience.
Apparently the system misidentified his responses to people on his Facebook page as ‘spam’ and stopped him from posting.
Here’s more via the NY Post:
Facebook has apologized for temporarily blocking President Trump’s social media guru, saying his postings were mistakenly reported as spam.
Facebook said in a statement that it has a policy to “cap the amount of identical, repetitive activity coming from one account in a short period of time, such as @mentioning people,” as a way to fight automated bots.
The company said that is what accidentally happened to Scavino, and apologized.
“These limits can have the unintended consequence of temporarily preventing real people like Dan Scavino from engaging in such activity, but lift in an hour or two, which is what happened in this case,” a Facebook spokesperson said in a statement, Politico reported.
“We’ve been in touch with him and have apologized for the inconvenience.”
That sounds reasonable to me and actually makes sense. It also coincides with the screenshot he posted initially.
Even on a small website like ours we have to deal with spam all the time. I can’t imagine how much spam they have to deal with from bots.