WTF? Threads is blocking links to the official website of France’s left coalition (Nouveau Front Populaire) in the upcoming snap legislative elections, https://www.nouveaufrontpopulaire.fr

EDIT: 16 hours later, Meta has silently lifted the ban on all its platforms → https://nileane.fr/@nileane/112665591274407118

Same thing on the web.
Am I the only one seeing this?

https://www.threads.net/@nileanedorffer/post/C8hxuqni0IN

Alright, two things:

Yep, it seems the www. subdomain is required for that website to work. https://www.nouveaufrontpopulaire.fr

However, even that is blocked on Threads:

Pasting a link to the far-right party's website works perfectly fine. Same for Macron's party's website.

The left coalition's website is the only one that's blocked by Threads.

https://www.threads.net/@nileanedorffer/post/C8h1yXvJcH9

FWIW, I posted a link to that website on Threads about a week ago, and it worked fine. https://www.threads.net/@nileanedorffer/post/C8Mxi8NIh6b

If they're indeed blocking this URL now, that happened in the last couple of days.

WELP.

Threads just removed my post from last week which had a link to the left coalition's website.
I'm now locked out of my Threads account

What is going on right now???

@nileane what the hell

@nileane You are not alone, some users got the same problem. I guess that part of censure from an untrusted social media that helped Trump’s election.

Du coup je ping @lqdn pour qu’iels se penchent sur cette question de censure.

@catflyhigh why are you showing me a Bluesky screenshot. I'm talking about Threads here

(Update: I can access my Threads account now)

Confirmed: https://www.nouveaufrontpopulaire.fr is also blocked on Facebook and in Instagram stories.

@ladyteruki yep

To my French followers: n’hésitez pas à taguer des journalistes qui pourraient couvrir cette dinguerie (surtout si c'est pas corrigé d'ici genre demain ou après-demain).

@nileane C'est trop bizarre, je vois personne parler de ça sur Twitter. Tu as eu d'autres personnes qui ont confirmé le problème ? (j'ai pas de compte Insta/Facebook donc je peux check moi même)

@kaerhon Trop bizarre. Moi quoi qu'il arrive j'arrive pas à poster le lien sur Insta

@nileane@nileane.fr fediverse doesn't have this problem

BOYCOTT THREADS. USE SHOELACE https://shoelace.mint.lgbt/

RE: https://nileane.fr/users/nileane/statuses/112661667824907666

that's my statement i know people here don't use threads already but still tell your friends who do to use shoelace ;)

@nileane Tagging @mediapart and @404mediaco

@kevinrns @nileane There is a reply in this thread, that it might be automatic, because the domain is on a domainblocklist for spam because the domain is not configured in an optimal way. To me that sounds like the more likely cause, given how the domain is set up otherwise (reroute from domain to www version not working either).

@kevinrns @nileane It might be an IT issue on the domain, not a political one on Threads.

@kevinrns @nileane https://check.spamhaus.org/results/?query=www.nouveaufrontpopulaire.fr

@nileane On Twitter the #NouveauFrontPopulaire hashtag is *never* suggested, only dismissive variants used by the far-right or other names can be autocompleted. Same thing on the mobile app and on the web.

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[Update] It seems Meta has just lifted the ban on “https://www.nouveaufrontpopulaire.fr” on its platforms.

My Threads post from last week has also silently been restored. (I didn't get any updates on my appeal) https://www.threads.net/@nileanedorffer/post/C8Mxi8NIh6b

Whatever hiccup in Meta's automated moderation mess that was, the fact that this happened in the middle of an election campaign and didn't prompt any kind of response from Meta is all sorts of messed up.

@nileane indeed, I tried on FB one hour ago, it works

@ioster yes, did you read the post you're replying to?

@nileane oui c'était pour confirmer merci, il m'arrive de comprendre ce que je lis