Facebook messenger silently censors SMS messages (Conspiracy)

submitted ago by Fateswebb

I found that Facebook messenger is silently censoring and blocking certain SMS text messages without even warning it's users.

I was in person with a friend today, and they had some friends in town from Cuba we we're going to meet them and have dinner together. On the way to dinner I discussed with my friend an article I had read about how Fidel Castro's son left a suicide note claiming that Justin Trudeau is his half brother and Fidel Castro's son.

I showed her the article, and she asked that I send it to her so she could forward it to her friends.

I used Facebook messenger to send it to her as an SMS. (We were together at the time) I assumed she would get it and we went on with our dinner with her friends from Cuba. She kept asking me why I didn't send it and I kept saying I did. She didn't get the link, ut she did get other unrelated pictures I had sent in the meantime just not the link... So I again sent the link... Again using messenger to send the SMS. still she didn't get the second message. So I then used messenger to send it to her Facebook rather than SMS. And it gave me an error saying I could not send the message. And acted like the user had blocked me from sending messages. Which being with her at the time I knew wasn't so.. However if I just said hi.. with no link it would go through. So that made it clear that Facebook was blocking the link. EVEN SILENTLY BLOCKING it on SMS, Which Facebook shouldn't even be able to do if you ask me.

Then the same link I tried as a Facebook comment, and post and both are blocked as well.

Here is the link.

http://whatsupic.com/index/cuba-justin-trudeau-fidel-castros-son/

I find it very disturbing that Facebook can decide which SMS messages to send and even do so silently without telling you the message was blocked. So it would appear that all of your sms messages are ran across Facebook servers to check if they think it's something they approve of you sending before it will send the text message. And all I can say is WHAT THE FUCK FACEBOOK?? Needless to say I set a different app as my sms app, and blocked messenger from permissions to SMS.

I know Facebook is bullshit so spare me the lecture, I have friends that only use messenger for one reason or another so deleting it isn't an option, but I was using the SMS functionality as a convienience so I could have just one app do both. But those days are over with this revelation that apparently Facebook is monitoring SMS messages and even silently blocking them. I wouldn't have known she didn't get my message if I hadn't been with her at the time ..

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noworldorder ago

This is probably a part of Facebook's effort to stop the spread of what it deems to be "fake news", which is wrong, obviously.

The specific article you've tried to share is, most likely, "fake news" -- or, disinformation, more accurately. Baxter Dmitri of YourNewsWire (now rebranded as NewsPunch because people started correlating YourNewsWire with disinformation) is the Sorcha Faal. He's the origin of the article you've mentioned in your OP.

Here are a few of Baxter Dmitry's greatest disinformation-hits:

Wow, Baxter seems to be the go-to guy for Deep-Staters on their deathbeds! s/lol

Baxter Dmitry takes solid information about legit conspiracies, then adds-in his own fabricated-sensationalist-disinformation to the mix for clicks, making anyone who shares his disinformation look terrible in the process. That may actually be the whole point. He could easily be part of Cass Suntein's cognitive infiltration program of the conspiracy community, just like the flat earth garbage likely is.

Fateswebb ago

My article is not on that site, and as far as I know has nothing at all to do with that site.

Otherwise yeah they're "stopping the spread of what they decide is fake news"

But who the fuck are they to decide what is and isn't real? Ridiculous.

Also who the double fuck are they to be reading my SMS messages, and then blocking them without even informing me they did.

And even if it was baxters site. FUCK THAT. I have known that site was disinformation from the beginning, but that doesn't mean they have a right to block it.

noworldorder ago

Your article was written by Baxter and re-published by whatsupic.com: https://web.archive.org/web/20180306023520/https://yournewswire.com/justin-trudeau-fidel-castro-son/

I agree, FB shouldn't be making these decisions for us. They've buckled to Deep State pressure after Pizzagate created "fake news" hysteria.

Fateswebb ago

Oh well, yeah I know that guy spreads disinformation...

BUT

I still have a right to share the article with friends OVER SMS NO LESS. and the pictures in the article speak for themselves. There may be some disinformation in there who knows. But the article was in English and the people who I was trying to get it to we're from Cuba and don't even speak English they speak Spanish.. so they couldn't have even read the disinformation anyways. It was really just to share the pictures with them.

But all of that is completely besides the point. If Facebook wants to block posts on their platform, I feel that's bullshit.. but okay.

But them blocking SMS text messages sent from my phone number to another phone number silently as well... That's taking it too far.

Heck I thought you use messenger to send a text it just went out your phone, but apparently they send the text to their servers to make sure they approve. And if they don't approve they just don't send the text.

At least when you try to post something they block they tell you it didn't post, and when a messenger message to another Facebook account t is blocked they tell you it's blocked.

When they block a sms message, they say nothing they just don't send the message.

Stay the fuck out of my SMS messages Facebook..

So yeah I uninstalled messenger on one of my phones and on the other one I disabled it's access to SMS, and installed an alternative.

I'm pretty sure they don't mention anywhere in any user agreements that they can and do block sms texts based on their fake news algorithm...