[Post updated April 2022]
If you’re using facebook you may have noticed that this very web site had been blacklisted from about April 2020-April 2021. It was no longer possible to link to articles on datacide-magazine.com from facebook, and all existing links had been removed. It wasn’t even possible to share our email address in messages. The Datacide page on fb [1] still exists, so it’s not that Datacide per se had been banned. But when you tried to post a link it claimed that the site “violates community standards” or that it “includes content that other people on Facebook have reported as abusive” (depending on how you try to set a link you got either of those “error” messages). The latter suggests that it’s the result of a campaign, and not a mistake by fb’s AI as we initially assumed. But this is speculation – no reason or cause has been given by facebook.
Links to datacide-magazine.com on facebook have been blocked for a bit more than a year in total – we and a number of people have filed complaints/error reports, but unsurprisingly these have been ignored by facebook. It’s a crass example of an intransparent and unaccountable Behemoth exercising censorship.
How bad is this for us?
An analysis of the our site’s referrers shows that “only” 14.1% of referrals are from fb, the vast majority is from search engines (67.5%). The rest is made up from Twitter (2.6%) and all other web sites combined with 15.8% (These numbers are from 2020, when the ban was in place).
However, when new material is posted on the site, social media do drive a large section of the immediate readership in the short term, while search engines and links from other web sites are more responsible for long term traffic.
After about a year, suddenly and without explanation, it became possible again to post links to datacide-magazine.com on facebook. Nevertheless you will notice that we’re preferably using other means to publicise our activities! Facebook is not a trustworthy platform.
These include twitter (https://twitter.com/noise_politics [2]), and we have also set up a telegram channel https://t.me/datacide [3]. Please follow/subscribe! And share our content to your own twitter and telegram followers and contacts! You may also sign up to the Praxis Records newsletter HERE [4] to receive monthly updates which includes datacide related infos. Last but not least, please subscribe to the Noise & Politics YouTube channel [5] which features the monthly Molehill Report as well as other datacide-related content!
Update 2023: We’re also on Mastodon [6] and Bluesky [7], our Linktree is here [8].
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