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During a scorching, relentless wildfire season, Facebook has been flagging and removing dozens of posts containing links and screenshots from Watch Duty, a widely relied-upon wildfire alert app, as well as from federal and state agencies, according to interviews and Facebook conversations with nearly 20 residents, Facebook users and moderators, as well as employees from disaster response organizations. And it’s not happening just to people in Hutchinson’s rural and extremely fire-prone community 135 miles north of San Francisco but to volunteer responders, fire and sheriff departments, news stations and disaster nonprofit workers across California and in other states, according to screenshots.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Please stop using Facebook it’s just trash

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Maybe they're just trying to clean out the user base that makes it so bad? I mean other than the every single thing about it part.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 months ago

If you are relying on FB to warn you of imminent danger, you will end up dead. It's a social media platform. Your phone should be warning you, not StalkerBook.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The Airport Fire is very close to me, and just crested the mountain range to be visible on our side. It’s not a CALFire Incident but thankfully they still update reports and evac zones. Fire.ca.gov is the absolute GOAT.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Be safe my internet friendly stranger!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

I appreciate it fellow friendly internet stranger! Luckily I’m on the other side of a lake for this, so not too much worry. Air quality is rough, but I’ve honestly gotten used to it growing up in Cali. Not the first (or likely last) time I’ve had to deal with raining ash. Closest we get to snow in our area haha

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

Governments need to switch to Mastodon

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

TBF the warnings are unsolicited automated messages. I don't think FaceBook should have the authority to filter them but I can certainly understand how it happened.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

In the article it does not seem like automated messages. Rather guess that their fake news detection triggered, because links to these government sites spiked even though the sites were seldom mentioned before.