Spammers Find Loophole In Facebook Page Wall Filters

Spammers have found a way around the filters set up on Facebook page walls.

Spammers have found a way around the filters set up on Facebook page walls.

The recent redesign of pages added the ability for administrators to use Facebook as the name of their page, and while doing so they can post self-promoting content on others’ walls and click like on these posts.

Clicking like on such posts can keep the site from suggesting them as spam, says blogger Josh Constine. So we’ve asked Facebook how it’s planning to counteract these spammers, and will update our post when we find out more information.

Even as Facebook continues to improve its spam filters, we still have to manually delete some posts from the AllFacebook wall on the social network — often these deletions confirm suggestions made by the site via grey highlighting of postings that have no relation to the topic in a particular thread.

So

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