WordPress is shadowbanning conservative sites

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Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and now WordPress. Having been one of the early targets of social media censorship on Facebook, YouTube et al, I have for quite some time advocated for anti-trust action against these bullying behemoths. Read my article about this at The American Thinker. We are seeing an unprecedented erosion in our First Amendment rights, increasingly prohibiting the flow of ideas and free expression in the public square (social media). Run by left-wing self-possessed snowflakes, social media giants are indulging their worst autocratic impulses. And because they can, it is getting worse. “Absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

Having grown up in the 1970s, I can tell you it was a vastly different country then. It was free. But we aren’t any no longer, and it is time we took back what is ours — our unalienable freedoms.

“Evil WordPress shadow-bans Whatfinger News,” by Dr. Eowyn, Fellowship of the Minds, October 13, 2018:

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Shadow banning (also called stealth or ghost banning) is the act of blocking or partially blocking a user or their content from an online community such that it will not be readily apparent to the user that they have been banned. As such, shadow banning is a form of sneaky censorship.

Whatfinger News is a relatively-new but rapidly-rising link-news site like Drudge Report, only better. As it describes itself:

Whatfinger News was founded by military people and 100% unapologetic for being patriotic. That doesn’t mean we don’t show opposing views, sites and papers. We do and label them on the homepage in sections as right wing or left wing, unlike other sites that might trick you into clicking into sites that you would never want to visit. Not us!

FOTM‘s readers have seen our promotion of Whatfinger at the bottom of our posts. Even before we started doing that, Whatfinger had posted links to our posts, which was how I discovered Whatfinger. Each day, we get hundreds and often thousands of referrals from Whatfinger, for which FOTM is most grateful.

Beginning yesterday, I noticed something odd: There were no referrals from Whatfinger!…
So I went on Whatfinger to find out what had happened.

I saw that Whatfinger did post links to our posts, but also this statement:

Many sites have now sent screenshots, sites that we send thousands of people to daily who are all noticing WordPress ‘shadowbanning of stats’ – we all now need to know the truth.  Are all conservative sites targets? Will they blame some ‘algorithm as Facebook likes to do? Can’t be just Whatfinger, since we are new and no where near the size of other sites just yet.

So I went to FOTM‘s stats page, only to discover that WordPress had changed the referrals of the day before, Oct. 11, to remove all referrals from Whatfinger! The problem is, a day before, I had seen thousands of referrals from Whatfiinger, which now had vanished, retroactively expunged by WordPress….

I then clicked on the referrals for September 29, 2018 — a day when FOTM had a record 35,438 unique views. I remember seeing there were thousands of referrals from Whatfinger that day, which WordPress now has retroactively expunged…

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justmewhoelse12
justmewhoelse12
5 years ago

And this US veteran had evil midget Hitler wanna be Zuckerberg’s Facebook kick him off today

Facebook Deletes Disabled Veteran’s Page Without Warning — After Taking $300,000 for Ads
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/10/16/facebook-deletes-disabled-veterans-page-without-warning-after-taking-300000-for-ads/

bookish1
bookish1
5 years ago

Flagged as spam.

0349 JAT
0349 JAT
5 years ago
Reply to  bookish1

she is a annoyance.
Can she be band from this site?
She is like a bad smell that you can’t find.

sr71
sr71
5 years ago
Reply to  bookish1

Can anyone here explain something to me? Why do websites allow this spam to continue on their comment forums? Isn’t there someone who works on these websites, daily, that can simply click on the spam comment and hit the delete key?
This particular website is asking for donations to continue. I would consider doing that but if they cannot control spammers in their comments section, no donations will come from me!

M Aurelius
M Aurelius
5 years ago

Show us your boobs.

Truthseeker
Truthseeker
5 years ago
Reply to  M Aurelius

I would wager that the image is stolen from someone good-looking.

Suresh
Suresh
5 years ago

After facebook, twitter , even Google, youtube joins lslamofascist gang to support illegals and jihadis
suppress conservative free speech http://tinyurl.com/lgp28rs

saudi/qatar/OIC own part of twitter, Fox Network, fund CNN, MSNBC , buy out politicians , bureaucrats in education dept to push islam in schools/ colleges. Easiest way to brainwash and takeover country and shutdown free speech !

Ray - God Bless Israel.
Ray - God Bless Israel.
5 years ago
Reply to  Suresh

Mark Zuckerberg receives much money from the muslims.

Ray - God Bless Israel.
Ray - God Bless Israel.
5 years ago

Zuckerberg is America’s enemy

Ed Newbold
Ed Newbold
5 years ago

He’s only ONE of America’s enemies. There are some many our there now seeking the destruction of our society and our way of life!

felix1999
felix1999
5 years ago

Have a laugh on me!
What’s worse, DEMS controlling Congress or the GOP?
DEMS but not by much. VOTE R for the midterms and hope for the best.

Seniorpatriot
Seniorpatriot
5 years ago

Just came here from Whatfinger. Facebook, Twitter, WordPress, it is a sorry state of affairs. Can you imagine how bad things would be had Hillary stolen the election? With communists Brennan running the CIA, Comey running the FBI and Hillary in the White House determined to make us Venezuela.
Thank God we have Trump in the White House. he came at just the right time. America is truly blessed. We got Reagan just in time and now even better is Donald J. Trump, a man I am convinced now who will go down as the greatest president who ever lived. comment image

M Aurelius
M Aurelius
5 years ago

If you are a fan of James Madison, and Thomas Jefferson, be assured you will be shunned by Leviathan.
Arm yourselves, smile, and kill the Devil.

Alleged-Comment
Alleged-Comment
5 years ago

I never liked WordPress. I hardly go to sites that have WordPress. Disqus is the BEST. I almost always comment on sites that have Disqus.

1984  George Orwellesque
1984 George Orwellesque
5 years ago

Not for long. Disqus was sold to big data and analytics firm Zeta Global.

Article by Martin Brinkmann on December 06, 2017.

Tm.
Tm.
5 years ago

Well that’s not fair or just. No wonder I can’t see the links, and that I can’t get in more than one or two comments per day. I’m always directed to that WordPress site.
The President has been right about all of it.
There is a need for balance, and for equality. Some patriotic minded conservative billionaires with technological abilities need to help us get choices. Why cannot we have some conservative behemoths as well?

Tm.
Tm.
5 years ago

We need the conservative equivalent of Facebook, Google, and so forth. Balance the scales, please. It is best for all of us.

SquareTimeBob
SquareTimeBob
5 years ago

Sadly, with the tide of delusional, self-obsessed, self-righteous, narcissistic, virtue-signaling, cultural Marxist pseudo-heroics that seem to have mesmerized and entranced so many young people these days; coupled with snowballing technological developments, you can probably only expect these kinds of tactics to get worse, especially within the elite tech circles and on the internet.

Dustin John
Dustin John
5 years ago

mother f*****! Time for a class action lawsuit on all these fascist pigs!!! I pay them money for my blog!
https://liberalsbackwardsthink.com/2018/10/18/american-citizens-vs-uneducated-mob/

CharlieSeattle
CharlieSeattle
5 years ago

WTF is the DOJ and the FCC?

Defence Man
Defence Man
5 years ago

With the leftist media slashing and burning everything on the right (conservatives, conservative media, conservative commentary etc) they will inevitably drive the Trump government to pass legislation to break up these companies !

R. Arandas
R. Arandas
5 years ago

Big Brother much?

Fred Elbel
Fred Elbel
5 years ago

It’s probably not shadow banning.

Based on information presented by FOTM in comments to the article (https://fellowshipoftheminds.com/evil-wordpress-shadow-bans-whatfinger-news#comment-223014), all links to FOTM site from Whatfinger to the FOTM site work. Users can click on those links and visit the site. No one has reported that those links fail. Anyone can click on those links to confirm that they work.

Presuming those links work, no banning is taking place, shadow or otherwise.

What appears to be happening is that when WordPress collects its own statistics, referrers from Whatfinger are dropped from reports. This may be deliberate or it may be a bug.

In order to confirm whether the problem is just related to WordPress statistical reporting, the FOTM webmaster would have to view server site visitation logs for the website, and compare visitation and referral data to WordPress reported referral data. To-date, this analysis has not been performed.

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