I AM not new to the experience of being suspended by Facebook. In fact, I am still serving out my sentence of not being able to do a Facebook Live from my original account. This has taught me how to become creative. I now avoid sharing images and hyperlinks, except from "Facebook-friendly" pages like Rappler, Inquirer, ABS-CBN and CNN Philippines.

To avoid being flagged, I just use texts to describe images or what is contained in posts. When I use words or texts, I avoid controversial words, or I would mask them by inserting special characters. It also helps to post in Filipino, or other local languages, since the artificial intelligence used by Facebook algorithms to flag what are considered as offensive words have yet to encode a version in local languages.

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