Facebook Putting Frequently Reported Applications on Probation? [Corrected]

Over the course of the last couple years, Facebook’s approach to Platform governance has been consistently evolving. In the beginning, Facebook tried a quantitative stick-based approach based on user feedback – if enough invitations and notifications got reported as spammy, those channels got cut off. Then, it added a carrot with the creation of the “Verified Apps” program, but later shut it down after encountering some difficulties with that approach. Now, it’s taking a more manual approach, building out its policy enforcement team to manually review apps, dole out punishments, and weed out bad developers.