Charles and others, An MA student of mine wrote her thesis a couple of years ago on how the Kurdish diaspora use Facebook. Her informants talked about cases like these where the deletion was very clearly political - things like posting images of the Kurdish flag, but also things they hadn't expected to be seen as political. She also cited the manual for Facebook moderators that went around a few years back, which has a list of stuff to delete or block. Jacob, Kurdin. 2013. ‘‘Facebook is my second home’’. The Kurdish Diaspora’s Use of Facebook in Shaping a Nation. MA thesis in digital culture, University of Bergen. https://bora.uib.no/handle/1956/7629 Charles' post being deleted could be a false positive as Michael suggests but given Twitter deleted that Anonymous account pretty swiftly after they publicized the (wrong) name of the shooter I'd say it's entirely possible Facebook also deleted anything with keywords related to the anonymous post - actually, if Facebook allowed people to repost the falsely accused police officer's name, they might be used for slander or libel, right? And the post I saw on Twitter before @anonmessage or whatever the account was called was deleted included a screenshot of the alleged killer's Facebook page, so FB was very directly involved and no doubt aware of the situation. Jill Sent from my phone On 18. aug. 2014, at 16:08, Michael T Zimmer <zimmerm@uwm.edu<mailto:zimmerm@uwm.edu>> wrote: Hi Charles - My Occam's razor reaction to this is that your text triggered some kind of automated comment screening algorithm designed to prevent spam or other unapproved content. I suspect it wasn't that your comment was about Ferguson or Anonymous per se, but that it included text deemed spammy or hazardous (perhaps mention of doxing?). A classic false positive. -- Michael Zimmer, PhD Associate Professor, School of Information Studies Director, Center for Information Policy Research University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee e: zimmerm@uwm.edu<mailto:zimmerm@uwm.edu> w: www.michaelzimmer.org<http://www.michaelzimmer.org> On Aug 18, 2014, at 12:44 AM, Charles Ess <charles.ess@gmail.com<mailto:charles.ess@gmail.com>> wrote: Hi all, Apologies for a slightly irritated posting/inquiry - but I've discovered that FB recently removed a comment from my timeline that I made regarding events in Ferguson, Missouri, and Anonymous, which not only "doxed" the alleged shooter, but also cut off Internet services within the local police department. (Going on memory here, sorry if all the details are not exact or complete.) My comment was something along the lines of: The is the second time I've seen Anonymous out the wrong person (and I'm not even keeping track very closely). As unhappy as I am with corrupt and over-militarized cops, etc. [really: my wife grew up some 15 minutes' walk from where the shooting took place] - I'm even less happy with a hacker underground that is neither transparent nor accountable to those of us it claims to "protect and serve" (irony intentional). I'm assuming it was FB that took this down, for whatever reason (i.e., not someone from Anonymous or elsewhere)? In any event: does anyone know of good studies - qualitative / quantitative - that attempt to document this sort of behavior on FB's part? It would be invaluable both for its own sake, as well as for my upcoming class on Internet regulation as caught between several poles, including freedom of expression as critical to democratic discourse, etc. Many thanks in advance, - charles ess _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org<mailto:Air-L@listserv.aoir.org> mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/