Facebook making it harder to find marijuana businesses, regulators
Marijuana-related companies, regulators and trade groups around the globe recently stopped appearing in Facebook searches, becoming casualties in what appears to be the social media platform’s latest attempt to filter results related to “marijuana” and “cannabis.”
The phenomenon is known as “shadow banning,” in which posts on an online social community such as Facebook, Twitter or Instagram become invisible to users searching for them.
Facebook, to be sure, has shuttered thousands of pages belonging to cannabis businesses and related entities over the years.