Posts you make on social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and the like are not getting seen like once were. Many posts only reach those who follow you, have the same interests as you, or those who stumble upon your public shares. They do not reach the masses, even if they are publicly shared and even when you allow them to share it on Google. They are simply blocked or shadow banned.
Shadow banning, also called stealth banning, ghost banning or comment ghosting, is the act of blocking or partially blocking a user or their content from an online community so that it will not be readily apparent to the user that they have been banned.
Wikipedia
Why? Because much of the content in people’s posts goes against the interests of social media platforms’ stated purpose, to be universally liked and have trusted brand following. They want their experience with many to be positive, so they manipulate these experiences using proven psychological methods of emotional state changes in people. They have been growing in this craft for a long time, so they are able keep people engaged (addicted) in their app enough to throw advertisements at them and sell their data to other companies, to profit. It’s a business.
When you use social media to cross post articles from your blog or other websites, the clicked links can take users from the app and place them in websites outside of the apps control sphere, which is bad business. They do not want users to leave, so the powers-that-be limit your linked posts from large groups of other social media app users, even if they are your friends or followers and are engaged with your content. They simply will not be seen by a large number of your friends or followers, because they don’t meet the standards and metrics set by the apps.
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However, if you share a post of a life event, a cute family picture or something that gives the social media more use and attention, it will have a greater chance to be seen by many. These types of posts change people’s emotional state, are generally positive and likable, and keep people entranced by the content. On the flip-side, if it is political, religious, something divisive or negative enough to “turn people off” after viewing, it is shadow banned to protect that company from users abandoning the app due to negative emotional state changes. In short, few people will see your post, if any at all. But do not give up on your mission to share the message!
Social media apps judge your posts and they are getting aggressive. They have the power to influence the actions of people and if your content is not working for their interests – it is hidden. You will not know that it is being hidden, thus the reason for the term “shadow banned“. If your posts contain scripture, faith keywords or other keywords like revival, salvation, etc., you will be shadow banned.
If one truly speaks on repentance, but leaves out topics such as: atheism, sexual immorality, pornography, sex trafficking, abortion and abuses of people, are they really following Jesus?
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Christians, especially those following the bible, can sometimes create divisive posts. If you are speaking the gospel, you must also speak on repentance, and there is a lot to repent from. Evil in the Bible is no longer considered evil in this world. It is why we have riots and looting, murders, rapes, and violence of all kinds ramping up in the streets of this nation. If one truly speaks on repentance, but leaves out topics such as: atheism, sexual immorality, pornography, sex trafficking, abortion and abuses of people, are they really following Jesus?
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On Facebook, I have also found that the ministries I follow, who I used to see content from often, are being shadow banned. I no longer see many of the posts they used to share. If I go to many of my Christian friends or the churches facebook profiles, I will find posts that never showed in my feed. Even though I had subscribed to their content.
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On the Facebook platform, I have also seen more changes in the past six months more than any other time in the application’s history with filtering. This is especially true for what social media categorizes as “religious content”. Very few facebook friends are getting the views and likes they once received when posting evangelical information. Perhaps it is because people are leaving the platform? Without actual data from Facebook or the other social media giants, we will never know, but they do. Shadow banning, like ghosting or cancel culture, is considered the new normal, but it’s not. It’s truly abnormal and it’s evil, and we are to expose evil.
“(Facebook) Gives me the willies” and “I don’t use it”
Elon Musk
As an evangelizing Christian, there are work arounds to have your posts seen by more people by sharing them widely in forums, groups, and in comments of other people’s posts. There are secrets to how social media apps work and how to get around the new filtering of posts or the filtering of your posts. While there are a few workarounds, it seems that this is the way things are headed, where some content is being limited, removed, fact-checked, or just plain censored. It’s not new, but it is an information war on Christ and unfortunately, these tactics prevent the word of God from reaching the lost and oppressed.
It is always wise to pray. Ask God how to get your content seen by more people, how we may intercede for others, and how we can grow the harvest with the Holy Spirit as our helper.
God bless, sharing is caring, you are loved. ❤️
“Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; children will rebel against their parents and have them put to death. 22 You will be hated by everyone because of me, but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved. 23 When you are persecuted in one place, flee to another. Truly I tell you, you will not finish going through the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes.
Matthew 10:21-23