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People keep calling the 'shadowban' on my local news page a glitch, but I have the screenshots
My town's Facebook page for road closures got its reach cut by 90% after posting about a protest at city hall. The admin showed me the backend numbers. For three weeks, our posts just stopped showing up in feeds unless you searched the exact name. That's not a bug, it's a choice by the platform. Has anyone else seen a local info page get hit like this for posting event details?
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maxmurphy5mo ago
My food truck obsessed neighbor showed me his analytics once and his reach dropped to basically zero right after he posted the location for a new taco spot. He spent two weeks convinced he accidentally shadowbanned himself by typing the menu in all caps like a crazy person. I told him, at least your page got buried because of a protest, mine just gets invisible because people want to argue about the best burger in town. It is way too consistent to be a random glitch, feels more like the platform picking sides without saying it.
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the_elizabeth6mo ago
Yeah, our neighborhood watch group page got the same treatment last fall. We posted the dates for a community meeting about that new development. Engagement just died overnight. The page admin ran a test and our posts were only being seen by like 2% of our followers. It's definitely a pattern, not a random error.
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mark6766mo ago
My buddy runs a local food truck page and their reach tanked for a month after they posted their weekly schedule. It came back on its own, no changes made. Sometimes the algorithm just goes weird.
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