Anyone notice a change to their Facebook privacy settings? ( pizzagate )

submitted by StrangerTamer

Long time lurker, first time poster.

I have a pretty good amount of "friends" on Facebook, so I found it puzzling when I made several posts over the past 2 weeks, but got not a single "like" or comment on any of them. They ranged in topic from sports to politics to pro wrestling...

I just browsed down my own page and noticed a padlock icon next to my recent posts, indicating I had shared them with "only me". I've had this setting set to "share publicly" for years, and haven't even been to the settings page in years either.

I noticed the first post I made that was "locked" read simply "Investigate #pizzagate" on 11/26.

Just wondering if anyone else has noticed anything like this, if Facebook is censoring the hashtag or its investigators, or if my app somehow magically changed to share posts with "only me" (what would be the point of that?).

Seiferus

I feel like some of my posts have been sort of shadowbanned sometimes.

When WikiLeaks first started dropping all those e-mails, I went and changed all my settings to be completely public so that everytime I broke down an important e-mail, people could share the information with their friends that I don't know. I have looked to make sure that my settings have not changed, all my posts appear to be public, but there were certain topics that everytime I brought them up I would be met with radio silence.

webofslime

It has been a battle. Set your occupation to freelance journalist with Consortium of International Journalists. Threaten to sue or make a big stink. I have over 3,000 friends and my account is years and years old, which helps. I have had plenty of other accounts go down.

Chance903

I don't really use FB since FB data mines your account and life.

r3dtr1x

Have you been pushing a lot of pizzagate stuff into FB?

StrangerTamer

Just the aforementioned two word text post and one meme. Though I do belong to one "secret group" on the subject.

r3dtr1x

Can you not change your security settings back? I had the padlock thing happen to me once, when I was playing a game and noticed the game putting all these BS things into FB, I changed the post so that only I could see it... then it defaulted to that setting for all future posts

StrangerTamer

Yeah I changed it back, it was just puzzling because I post somewhat frequently and it only magically changed when i mentioned you know what.

Pnutgod

Mine isn't letting me comment on any public posts besides my own friends

DystopianDaze

Yes, FB is censoring #Pizzagate as "fake news" from what I am hearing.

ThorTheWonderful

All I noticed was my Facebook was locked and want to ID me after hive my real name and photo up for several years.