Readers react to Facebook restriction against IOL

[schumi]

Readers react to Facebook restriction against IOL

Independent Media, the owner of newspapers such as the Cape Argus, Cape Times, The Mercury, The Star and Pretoria News, has been slapped with a seven-day restriction. Effectively, Independent Online (IOL) will not be able to post their stories on Facebook for a week.

Announcing on Facebook, the media house said: “We have appealed the sanction, and are awaiting feedback.”

It further stated: “To clarify, we haven’t received any official reason from Facebook, but suspect it has to do with an image in the last story we were able to share yesterday.”

A few readers wondered if that was censorship.

“Isn’t this a [sort] of censorship? i thought the idea of press was to tell the truth ESPECIALLY IN PICTURES…OR DO WE JUST WANT ‘NICE’ NEWS…” asked reader Carlo da Silva.

Others accused the media giant of crass posts.

More at: http://citizen.co.za/news/news-national/1562539/readers-react-to-fb-restriction-against-iol/

 

[supersunbird]

Maybe their articles are so crap it can be considered fake news (and FB has taken a stand against fake news)...

 

[C4Cat]

When did this happen? Their Facebook page seems to be updated regularly, last post was 5 minutes ago

 

[LazyLion]

Which picture?

Facebook regularly practices censorship - the often delete users posts and/or articles they don't like.
They were caught out showing bias towards one side in the last US election.

 

[Rouxenator]

Isn’t this a [sort] of censorship?

Oh, like the time you DELETED disqus off all your site?! Die mo-fos... die!