From the looks of, “Everyone will know” seems to be in a few kind of banned words super list that gets triggered every time a Facebook user tries to post it as a comment. The Huffington Post has independently confirmed that the phrase can now be posted.
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The Huffington Post reported that the issue has been solved and netizens are able to write “Everyone will know”.
According to Melanie Ensign, the one handling Facebook’s cybersecurity communications and advocacy, this was simply a mistake that made the spam filter misidentify the three words as inappropriate or offensive. “We’re constantly updating the rules used by our spam-fighting engine and this particular phrase erroneously got caught in the mix”, she explained.
The “Everyone will know” glitch came to light on Friday when a user asked, on the popular question-and-answer site Question.com, “Why can’t you post “everyone will know” on Facebook?” Please try a different post. Apparently, users attempting the feat received an “Action blocked” warning. Although initially it seemed there were errors only in comments, notifications of blocked content could pop up when posting in both public statuses, comments and private messages. “One more message being prompted with the aid of the ‘everyone will know indicated that the action could have violated the fb TOS, and it states that”, Failed to like post the action attempted has been deemed abusive or is otherwise disallowed.
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We’re sure glad that Facebook has such an innocent explanation for the spooky “everyone will know” incident. This assumption has brought forth hypothesis that maybe, there’s a master record of banned words and phrases that exists.
