Kisan Ekta Morcha’s Facebook page was marked as spam due to increased activity: Facebook


In an earlier statement Sunday night, Facebook had said that they had restored “Kisan Ekta Morcha’s Facebook page” and that they “regret the inconvenience.

in a cheep, the KEM had previously written, “This is what you can do when people raise their voices …”. In a follow-up tweet, KEM added: “This is #TooDemocracy. A peaceful protest by Kisan and deletions from Facebook @Kisanektamorcha Facebook page. (Sic) “

Facebook explains why it removed the page

At 7:18 pm on Sunday, the KEM Twitter user posted a screenshot of the Facebook page with the notification that “the page has not been published.”

“This is because Kisan Ekta Morcha goes against the Community Spam Standards,” the screenshot says.

The fifth He had contacted Facebook with three specific inquiries:

  • Why the page was unpublished
  • Why was it found to be spam?
  • What specific community standard regarding spam did the page violate

In a detailed response, a Facebook spokesperson stated: “According to our review, our automated systems found increased activity on the Facebook page www.facebook.com/kisanektamorcha and marked it as spam, which violates our Community Standards. We restored the page in less than 3 hours when we realized the context. “

“The review showed that only the Facebook page was affected by automated systems, while the Instagram account was not affected,” the statement added.

According to Facebook, the vast majority of its anti-spam work is done automatically “using recognizable patterns of problem behavior.”

In the third quarter of 2020, of the 1.9 billion pieces of content removed globally for violating Facebook’s policies on spam, the platform “restored 74.9 million pieces of content globally, when we identified the issues “.

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