“Everything my staff has put up has disappeared. Meetings, public hearings, bylaws, notices about water shut offs or road closures, anything we would post back to our main website has been removed.”

Coyne said the reason the posts were removed, according to Facebook, was because they went “against our Community Standards on cybersecurity.”

“It’s a struggle especially during the fire season here,” said Coyne. “It just makes it really, really frustrating because how do you post a PDF that says where the evacuations are, this is the map, this is the information you need to know, when those pieces of information keep disappearing from the social media channels that we use?”

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    10 months ago

    Sounds like the town needs to run a better website and not depend on Facebook for broadcasting news…

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      9 months ago

      I really hope more government agencies start self-hosting fediverse I stances I stead of depending on commercial companies.

      With enough different institutions hopping on, the fediverse as a whole will also mature and evolve much faster.