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Using SOUNDEX / Homophones / Misspellyngs & Scope Expansions to bypass Social Media Censorship and Blocks

2021-11-09 20:51:46+00:00

I honestly have no idea why a basic search for “Kyle Rittenhouse” on Facebook should bring up zero results; it might be an intentional attempt to limit access to abusive UGC, or it might be that the keywords have become associated with abusive content somewhere inside Facebook’s automated abuse-blocking systems, or it might be a systems burp, or there may be an actual legal block of some kind for some reason, due to the ongoing trial.

I have zero clue why this is happening, but the situation presents an educational opportunity to explore simple means to bypass to such mechanisms; judge for yourself whether the resulting content is worthwhile and/or whether the results of such searching are less “balanced” than would result from an organic or ranked search result.

In the attached examples: reverse search terms, add extra search terms, mis-spell names so that the system “helpfully” fixes your typo for you after the block would have been applied in the pipeline.











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