iVoterGuide, an online voter information platform, has alleged that Facebook’s algorithm is targeting and removing its posts.
A news release by iVoterGuide asserts that users are discovering that their posts linking to the voter guide are being removed because they violate community guidelines.
According to the news release, the speed and methodology of removal indicate targeting by Facebook.
“iVoterGuide provides non-partisan, factually documented research on candidates and issues,” said iVoterGuide President Debbie Wuthnow. “We do not endorse candidates or tell people how to vote; we simply provide publicly available information to educate voters.”
However, Wuthnow said that in the past several days alone, nearly 100 users have reported that posts—when they link directly back to iVoterGuide—are being removed by the algorithm.
“How can providing the truth be deemed harmful to the community?” she continued. “We call on Meta to allow open discourse on all sides of the issues as we head into the critical 2024 elections, and we ask voters to counter this action by going directly to iVoterGuide.com.”
In late August, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted to allowing the suppression of information and expressed remorse about the company’s actions leading up to the 2020 election.
“I also think we made some choices that, with the benefit of hindsight and new information, we wouldn’t make today,” Zuckerberg wrote.
Yet, as iVoterGuide reported, it has become the latest target of big tech censorship.
In February 2022, Attorney General Ken Paxton sued Meta for privacy violations. In late July, the company agreed to a $1.4 billion settlement with the state of Texas, which is the largest ever obtained from an action by a single state.
Meta did not respond to Texas Scorecard’s request for comment at the time of publishing.
