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Facebook Gun Industry Suppression
Aaron Spuler is a firearms enthusiast and recreational shooter. Follow more or his work at The Weapon Blog
Back at the end of February of this year, I noticed a drop in traffic to our website. I watched, but not too closely. This is the slow time of year, after all. A month went by and the drop continued, and it became apparent that this wasn’t an ordinary slump. Something was going on, and it was just a matter of figuring out what that something was.
While digging through Analytics, all signs kept pointing to one location: Facebook. I reached out to my friends Robert and Dan at The Truth About Guns to see if they were seeing similar results. They were.
I got out my little black book and contacted others in the industry, and heard the same story time and time again. It was no coincidence; something was happening on the Facebook end of things, and it was severely hurting our website traffic referrals from the social media giant.
I’ve noticed similar behavior on both the website and the post reach on FB. Read the rest of the article: http://concealednation.org/2016/06/press-release-facebook-actively-suppressing-news-distribution-for-the-gun-industry/
Source: http://www.weapon-blog.com/2016/06/facebook-gun-industry-suppression/
