How dark is your Facebook shadow ban?

Alameen Templeton

Most Muslims know regularly putting up Facebook posts supporting Palestinians attracts the ire of Facebook’s censors and we end up being “shadow banned” into muffled irrelevance in the “Fb universe”.
Shadow banning results in fewer of your posts being visible to your friends (as though Facebook knows better than you why you linked up with them in the first place) and you receiving fewer notices from them.
It seems to me, that’s very unfair.
But, more importantly, the practice is discriminatory against Palestinians and is supportive of Israel’s genocide in Gaza and contributes to the denial of Palestinian self-determination.
So, could we build a case against Facebook by measuring the extent of our shadow bans ourselves – without the need to try winkle the evidence out of a reluctant Mark Zuckerberg at some future Nuremburg-style trials of Israel and its supporting genocidaires?
If we can show empirically, with numbers, that Facebook is discriminating against Muslims, then we could take them to court while the genocide is happening and not in a few years’ time when it will be too late to prevent death.
Perhaps you can share your comments and suggestions below on what you think.
It’s quite easy to measure the depth of your shadow ban on your own, without any complicated aids.
Just count how many real posts you get from your real friends and compare it to the amount of “suggested” post that Facebook is plastering on your wall as part of your shadow ban.
For instance, I am presently getting five real friends’ post for every 30 post Facebook sends me. That means, only 20% of all the post I get on Facebook are posts I want to see; the rest is just junk mail contributing to my Facebook isolation.
So, my shadow ban is 80%.
Try the same exercise next time you go on Facebook and share the results in the comments section.
Hopefully, this exercise will give us some interesting insights on Facebook censorship and its illegal support for genocide. Wouldn’t you like to see Mark Zuckerberg in jail for genocide (and for personal injury to yourself … AND wasting your time on Fb)?