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Anyone who runs a Facebook page understands that Facebook seems to non-stop be requesting that you pay to promote your page. But an insider recently leaked to us that programmers with a grudge against police have tweaked the code to fleece police pages.
Proof Facebook hates cops
When a page administrator views their page each post displays how many people have seen the post. Right next to that number is a link to “Boost this post”. Facebook makes no secret they that any given post to a fan page is only seen by about 10% of the people who “like” that page. Meaning to get more people to see a posting page admins are forced to pay to boost the post. Facebook boosted posts will also be shown to people who do not “like” a page, as a “sponsored posting”.
A few weeks ago we at CallTheCops noticed that one of our postings was showing that it had a reach of one person. Yet this posting had 20 likes and 11 comments. We emailed Facebook multiple times asking why a post could only have been viewed by one person yet twenty could hit the like button. No official reply came from Facebook.
Then we got a mysterious phone call. A person who identified themselves as a Facebook employee, said they used their inside access to get our private phone number. Based on that little fact we already believed this anonymous source to be true.
Our source told us that inside Facebook there is a group of coders who hate cops with a passion. “These guys have written some code that looks at pages and identifies them as being operated by a police officer or having a pro-police slant to it. The system them under reports the reach of the posts. It also over inflates an advertising cost.”
According to this source these coders noticed that many police related pages sold t-shirts and other police novelty items. So they assume that many of these pages will be willing to pay to boost posts that include links to their sales pages.
We tried to get a comment from Facebook, but thus far none has been received.
