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Looks like Facebook is now blocking content. They will decide what you can read or not. They just blocked a @thewire_in piece. CC @nixxin - Saikat Datta (@saikatd) November 19, 2015

This post exposing Modi lies on his 2003 London visit was being blocked by Facebook. I hear it's back so posting... https://t.co/iPilOciRmw - Kavita Krishnan (@kavita_krishnan) November 19, 2015

Attn techies, piece posted by 1k+ on FB vanished from everyone's TL. No change in URL. https://t.co/njI45C2VX7 Possible cause? Remedies? - Siddharth (@svaradarajan) November 18, 2015

Dear @facebook what is it about this article that worries you enough to block it from my wall??? https://t.co/2H7qwmnuPa via thewire_in - Omar Abdullah (@abdullah_omar) November 19, 2015

Amazing how much hate and abuse can be posted on @facebook but a first hand account by a former diplomat is blocked on people's walls! - Omar Abdullah (@abdullah_omar) November 19, 2015

Clearly, Facebook is quietly enforcing censorship as it seeks legitimacy from Govts. @thewire_in @nixxin @svaradarajan - Saikat Datta (@saikatd) November 19, 2015

Apparently the Wire article wasn't posting on Facebook because of the technical glitch of being critical of Modi - IndiaExplained (@IndiaExplained) November 19, 2015

Of course, the best way to cover up something of this scale is to blame it as accidental isn't it? https://t.co/Hq9DXhff9p - Meena Kandasamy (@meenakandasamy) November 20, 2015

Facebook's "technical glitch", which resulted in blocking of an article on Prime Minister Narendra Modi , has made social media livid, with many questioning the motive behind the move. The article on Modi's visit to UK after the 2002 Gujarat riots disappeared from timelines of the users who had shared the link and was made unsharable to other users.Though the social media giant has apologised calling it a glitch and restored the article for sharing, the angry sentiments have still not died down.The article in question, 'When Mr Modi went to London', was written by India's former deputy high commissioner Satyabrata Pal for. In the article, Pal says he aims to 'set the record straight' for Modi's visit to the UK in 2003 as Gujarat chief minister. Pal writes that the visit was a 'nerve-racking and politically fraught affair', and that the British government's reaction was neither warm nor respectful. This is in contrast to the claims made by PM Modi during his visit earlier this month that he was received warmly and with respect by the UK in 2003.The sudden disappearing of the article after being shared thousands of times and message from Facebook that the content users were trying to post was 'abusive', generated angry reactions on Twitter.TheWire's founder editor Siddharth Varadarajan tweeted:Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah was among the thousands of users whose post disappeared. He vented his anger on Twitter.He further posted:Facebook later apologised and said the article had been "mistakenly captured" by the company's spam filter. But the event generated a lot of online buzz on censorship.