More than 25 Catholic Pages Blocked by Facebook as "Spam"; Later Restored
Between the night of July 17 and the morning of July 18, 2017 Facebook unpublished more than 25 Catholic pages in English, Portuguese and Spanish with no explanation to page administrators. After restoring the pages around 1:00 in the morning of July 19th, Facebook gave a statement to ACI Prensa: "The pages were reestablished. The incident was a malfunction of the spam detection mechanism in our platform. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused." In 2016, Facebook came under fire for allegedly censoring trends to news deemed "conservative."
According to Catholic News Agency, the blocked Catholic pages each had between hundreds of thousands and 9 million followers.
Source: Catholic News Agency