FACEBOOK UNPUBLISHES LOCAL NEWS MEDIA PAGE – First News Now, Tioga County’s most popular local news page was taken offline this morning claiming First News Now was in Violation of Community Standards (AGAIN).

TIOGA COUNTY, PA – Around 7:15 AM FNN readers started messaging the page asking what happened to the local news media outlet page as nothing appeared. All those who shared the latest breaking story saw post unavailable message instead.

Staff of the volunteer news media page was shocked to learn Facebook had unpublished the news page this morning, especially since once again alleged false claims were made by Facebook claiming FNN violated community standards.

FNN staff has requested a review. (see images provided). However, with all the other false violations filed in the past involving obituaries and PSP releases, there was no provided information on the alleged violations, as staff saw in the past. With well over 37,000 followers many are wondering why FB is so interested in controlling independent news content as they have been pushing hard to make users pay to boost stories to reach their followers?

Oddly enough not long ago FB had dropped all avenues to reach a Facebook tech to help resolve issues and challenge alleged violations. Issues arrived for FNN when the new AI was activated on Facebook. Now one has to pay to talk with someone through chat.

FNN staff apologizes for the disruption in local news. This was the only way for FNN to reach people and let them know what was happening.