CARDINAL NEWS is celebrating free speech and a freedom pattern that strikes our firm barely away from the Fb platform.
Right here’s the reason …
Fb (Meta Platforms, Inc.) despatched CARDINAL NEWS a false alert final week that forces a call change concerning how CARDINAL NEWS articles shall be delivered on Fb pages managed by CARDINAL NEWS. In different phrases, the actions of Fb (Meta Platforms, Inc.) has triggered CARDINAL NEWS to rethink how articles shall be shared or fed to Fb pages from CARDINAL NEWS.
Readers might have observed the change that’s already underway: CARDINAL NEWS Fb pages not submit referrals on to the hyperlink of the CARDINAL NEWS article. As an alternative, every Fb submit refers back to the CARDINAL NEWS web site timeline hyperlink. We’re making this alteration as a result of Fb made a basic false accusation that certainly one of our articles was thought-about spam, in opposition to their “Neighborhood Requirements.”
Fb additionally warned us that continued violations of their Neighborhood Requirements might lead to our account being suspended or terminated.
CARDINAL NEWS needs you to be alert to imminent adjustments, and desires to make the next suggestions to make it simpler so that you can proceed studying CARDINAL NEWS articles.
To start with, the brand new technique of referral to the straightforward timeline will take you in shut proximity to the precise article, which ought to be simple to search out except you might be studying the shared submit on Fb a major period of time after it was posted.
ADVANTAGES TO YOU
Posts shared on Fb shall be concise with no images, which produces a simplified listing on our Fb timelines that shall be simple to browse to search out what you need.If you need extra in-depth data, you’ll be able to proceed to CARDINAL NEWS and examine full content material, images and video fastidiously designed by CARDINAL NEWS with readers in thoughts with out the chance of modification or censorship by Fb.
You’ll nonetheless be capable to share our Fb content material with others — each from Fb and immediately from the CARDINAL NEWS article.
You possibly can nonetheless touch upon our content material on Fb.
DISADVANTAGE TO YOU
You’ll not be capable to see our images on Fb, and you will notice shorter excerpted article content material on every shared Fb submit.ADVANTAGE TO CARDINAL NEWS
We cut back our threat of getting our content material managed or censored, and of getting our account suspended by Fb.
SUGGESTION …
Please think about inserting sure CARDINAL NEWS assets in your Dwelling Display in your cellular system (eg., Apple iPhone, iPad or Android cellular system).
Additionally, think about creating bookmarks in your browser in your desktop laptop or pocket book laptop.
Listed here are some advisable assets to save lots of to your house display or bookmarks …
FRONT PAGE
Our journal type entrance web page.
Arlingtoncardinal.com
RECENT NEWS
A less complicated show that lists all articles, all the time beginning with the newest article on the prime.
Arlingtoncardinal.com/posts/
24/7 Crime Alerts!
Contains all Chicagoland crime articles from CARDINAL NEWS (there are sub-categories for extra particular areas of Chicagoland).
Arlingtoncardinal.com/class/crime-alerts/
24/7 Hearth Rescue!
Contains all Chicagoland hearth, rescue EMS articles from CARDINAL NEWS (there are sub-categories for extra particular areas of Chicagoland).
Arlingtoncardinal.com/class/news-flash/
FireMapChicago.web
Chicagoland hearth, rescue, main EMS calls in a succinct format.
ChicagoCrimeMap.web
COMING SOON: Chicagoland crime, investigations, police exercise calls in a succinct format.
RADAR
Climate radar web page (not class) for northern Illinois.
Arlingtoncardinal.com/radar
You possibly can discover: There are lots of different classes which can be obtainable you could save to your house display or bookmarks. For instance, there’s a sub-category to 24/7 Crime Alerts that gives an inventory of Arlington Heights crime solely (CRIME BLOG A) …
Arlingtoncardinal.com/class/crime-alerts/crime-blog/
CARDINAL NEWS is making these suggestions about Dwelling Display placement as a result of we wish to encourage you to examine the web site by yourself as an alternative of relying on a Fb feed. There’s actually extra worth to the web site, than simply receiving a feed from Fb.
SAVE TO HOME SCREEN MOBILE
Easy methods to Save a Web site or Net Web page to Your Dwelling Display (Official from Apple)
https://assist.apple.com/information/iphone/bookmark-favorite-webpages-iph42ab2f3a7/iosEasy methods to add an internet site to an Android or iPhone (Android Authority)
https://www.androidauthority.com/add-website-android-iphone-home-screen-3181682/
Wanting ahead, CARDINAL NEWS plans to offer extra data that will help you set up our CARDINAL NEWS assets, cut back your dependence on Fb, and probably choose different strategies to obtain actual time alerts for CARDINAL NEWS. We plan to make up to date suggestions periodically.
CARDINAL NEWS regrets having to make these adjustments to our Fb feeds, however these adjustments could also be essential to maintain Fb (Meta Platforms, Inc.) from suspending our Fb accounts utterly.
The brand new process might initially damage our statistics, with much less efficient notifications as a result of Fb referrals shall be lacking direct hyperlinks to particular CARDINAL NEWS articles. This may increasingly initially inconvenience some people who depend upon Fb for his or her information feed. Nevertheless, the brand new Fb feed procedures by CARDINAL NEWS (if applied) might also assist everybody as a result of detailed content material and images shall be constantly obtainable on Arlingtoncardinal.com and NOT obtainable on Fb, which is commonly disorganized and sluggish. That signifies that extra folks will go to Arlingtoncardinal.com, and fewer folks shall be on Fb with the related distractions, spam, censorhip and filtering that happens on Fb.
For instance of different annoyances, certainly one of our readers reported that Fb warned him that he was scrolling too quick on Fb, and was suspected of being a bot. No kidding.
If readers go on to Arlingtoncardinal.com/posts (RECENT NEWS listing), they may conveniently see the listing with the newest articles posted on the prime.
WHY ARE WE DOING THIS?
The easy reply is that we wish to cease “bending a knee” to lord Fb, and cut back the waste of time that’s miserably concerned in trying to soundly, effectively and successfully use Fb.
Additionally, on a technical subject, the Fb platform will be painfully sluggish and unreliable — losing time.
Additionally, if Fb (Meta Platform, Inc.) would droop CARDINAL NEWS, it will reduce off a part of the communications that we’re accustomed to utilizing for our readers.
Additionally, the concern of being capriciously reduce off unjustifiably by Fb (Meta Platform, Inc.) lowers our high quality of life within the digital information world. It simply doesn’t really feel good; and life is just too brief to be repeatedly aggravated by Fb, when all we wish to do is solely present information experiences. These aggravations have gone on for years with Fb, and we thought we had solved our Fb suspension risk issues.
Additionally, CARDINAL NEWS would by no means wish to be concerned the way in which another sort of emergency class Fb pages are managed that contain members insulting different members, wrongly criticizing harmless victims and their households, and posting different disgraceful sort of feedback that seem on these Fb pages. Backside line? The Fb overhead is hurting our effort of offering efficient, organized information with free speech; and we wish to cease or cut back experiencing these points with Fb.
Additionally, we wish to steadily cut back our involvement with Fb as a result of the Meta Platform, Inc. has skilled bipartisan admonishment by the Senate Judiciary Committee About On-line Baby Security. The meta platform, together with Fb and Instagram has been accused of harming teen lives, and even inflicting the deaths of teenagers who’ve been bullied or extorted on their platforms. Fb and Instagram have even been accused of methods that encourage teen ladies to be obsessive about their physique picture to the extent of inflicting suicide. The much less CARDINAL NEWS is related to Fb, the higher.
Instagram studied the impact of the platform on youngsters, and located that “Instagram is dangerous for a sizeable proportion of youngsters — most notably teenage ladies.”
“We make physique pictures worse for one in three teen ladies”
“Teenagers blame Instagram for will increase within the price of hysteria and despair. This response was unprompted and constant throughout all teams.”
— Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo quoting a Wall Road Journal article
Hawley Press Releases
January 2024 and February 2024
Fb co-founder, chairman and CEO of Meta Platforms (previously Fb, Inc.) denied the allegations by Sen. Josh Hawley.
Hawley continued on the Senate Judiciary Committee About On-line Baby Security …
In response to a Fb senior government whistleblower who studied the Meta platform Instagram, he testified underneath oath saying that within the research he discovered that …
37 % of ladies between the ages of 13 and 15 had been uncovered to undesirable nudity on the Instagram platform within the final seven days on the time of the research.
Twenty-four % had skilled undesirable sexual advances and have been propositioned within the final seven days on the time of the research.
Seventeen % mentioned that that they had encountered self-harm content material pushed at them within the final seven days on the time of the research.
A video of the interplay between Sen. Josh Hawley and Mark Zuckerberg is immediately beneath …
Mark Zuckerberg and different main social media executives confronted robust questions on the Senate Judiciary Committee About On-line Baby Security in January 2024 from U.S. lawmakers involved about baby exploitation and security of their social media platform providers. U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., pressed Zuckerberg on social media’s results on households and youngsters (particularly teen ladies with physique pictures points), forcing him to apologize to households and asking him if he’ll compensate victims harmed by Fb and Instagram (Forbes Breaking Information). YouTube Ideas ⓘ
The Meta platform allegedly lets all this occur to teen ladies, however deletes a real submit a few deadly crash in Elk Grove Village shared by CARDINAL NEWS on Fb. The Fb submit deletion was accompanied by a warning accusation of some sort of imprecise spam violation with insufficient clarification (see immediately beneath) …
LAST WEEK’S MESSAGE FROM FACEBOOK
Final week CARDINAL NEWS obtained the next alerts from Fb (Meta Platforms, Inc.), and there was no technique to problem Fb’s accusation or to request nearer evaluate by Fb. Additionally, the alert disappeared, so it couldn’t be reviewed.
First, we obtained an alert from Fb (Meta Platforms, Inc.) {that a} submit that CARDINAL NEWS shared on Fb was eliminated for violating spam-related requirements. The submit was “Deadly Elk Grove Crash: Why Had been Teenagers Touring in Black Lexus With out Rear License Plate?” printed on Wednesday, Could 29, 2024. The submit was an article concerning the deadly crash in Elk Grove Village at Meacham Highway and Biesterfield Highway that killed a Des Plaines lady. CARDINAL NEWS was there all night time on the scene of the deadly crash, and supplied detailed protection with video and photographic proof being gathered on the scene by investigators. CARDINAL NEWS additionally supplied some extra truthful data, that no different media sources talked about.
Fb eliminated this shared submit, claiming it violated some sort of Spam class neighborhood commonplace.
Secondly, Fb (Meta Platforms, Inc.) supplied a imprecise second alert that “outlined” the class that we allegedly violated (there was no particular data detailing what CARDINAL NEWS allegedly did incorrect) …
See rule Neighborhood Requirements
Spam
We don’t enable folks to share or ship something that comprises deceptive hyperlinks or content material.
Examples of issues we don’t enable
x – Taking folks to an internet site that’s considerably completely different to what was proven or despatched to them
x – Taking folks to a touchdown web page that impersonates one other web site
x – Disguising the place a hyperlink is taking somebody utilizing repeated redirects of cloaking.
Your freedom of expression
We wish you to share freely with others. We solely take away issues, or limit folks to maintain the neighborhood respectful and secure.
Sarcastically, Fb additionally trivially inspired CARDINAL NEWS to submit a remark or really “spam” on the “rising submit” of one other unrelated, and unaffiliated Fb web page … “so extra folks uncover” CARDINAL NEWS.
Under we show display photographs of …
the remark encouragement message from Fb,
the title of the irrelevant article the place a remark was advisable (“Lady Allegedly Injects Man with Thriller Substance Inside Walmart”), and
the ABOUT PAGE that reveals that the referred web page claims to be a Police Station (however apparently will not be a police station) as a result of it shows an Anaheim, California bodily handle and a phone quantity with a Mexico nation code (+52).
Needless to say CARDINAL NEWS is continually combating precise spam that’s posted in Fb remark sections by dangerous actors that normally include false hyperlinks claiming to offer further video concerning the article we simply posted. This type of spam seems on all pages throughout Fb, together with official police division pages. CARDINAL NEWS routinely experiences and hides or deletes these spam hyperlinks with little promise that Fb is prepared to enhance the situations (further work for us). We have now even been “threatened” by readers of our articles on Fb claiming that they may cease studying CARDINAL NEWS if we don’t do a greater job of eradicating these spammy hyperlinks within the feedback part. Let’s simply say the work to handle Fb is changing into an overhead legal responsibility that impacts our capability to do the work that we love to do greatest … present information.
CARDINAL NEWS is altering our feed operations with Fb primarily as a result of we don’t wish to be improperly suspended by Fb. NOTE: The adjustments we have now introduced across the Independence Day vacation interval would possibly solely be short-term as we suspect Fb (Meta Platform, Inc.) is adjusting their algorithms for detecting violations of neighborhood requirements with the upcoming presidential elections in November 2024. However we’re not holding our breath whereas ready for good to come back from Fb.