FB app hit by low ratings
June 2, 2021 at 6:58 am
(This post was last modified: June 2, 2021 at 6:58 am by Silver.)
Facebook reportedly hit with campaign by pro-Palestinian activists leaving 1-star app store ratings
https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/20...ple-google
Noticed the low rating of the app when I was looking in the Google Play Store, due to currently having no internet access for my laptop which is primarily used to visit FB.
https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/20...ple-google
Quote:A social media campaign by pro-Palestine activists has pushed down the ranking for Facebook’s app in Apple and Google’s app stores, NBC News reported. The activists are seeking to protest Facebook’s alleged censorship of Palestinian accounts on its platform, and are instructing people to leave Facebook’s app a one-star review.
According to NBC News, Facebook is treating the situation as a high-priority issue internally; one software engineer wrote in a post on an internal Facebook message board that “users are upset with our handling of the situation,” adding that the users “have started protesting by leaving 1-star reviews.” Facebook has reached out to have the reviews removed, but so far, Apple has declined the request to remove the reviews. It’s not clear how or if Google responded to the request.
The rating for Facebook’s iOS app on the App Store as of Sunday afternoon was 2.3 stars out of 5, with 1-star ratings far outpacing others. In the Google Play store the situation was similar; the Android Facebook app had a slightly higher 2.4 rating, with the majority of the reviews 1-star.
Noticed the low rating of the app when I was looking in the Google Play Store, due to currently having no internet access for my laptop which is primarily used to visit FB.
