Facebook censoring "Facebook" groups?

A friend pointed out something interesting to me today: Go to Facebook Groups and search for “Facebook” and check out what’s returned–nothing.

But this seems a little odd, because “Facebook” groups clearly exist. For example, the Anti Facebook News Feeds Group has almost 1,000 members. Even very “pro-Facebook” groups like Facebook for Business (which has almost 1,300 members) are invisible. By contrast, search for “MySpace” or “Google” and hundreds of groups show up. If Facebook is blocking any group with the name “Facebook” from showing up in search results, that’s fair game for accusations of censorship.

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