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I’ve been managing Facebook and Instagram posts for a friend of mine for a while now (she’s a real estate agent just north of Seattle, Sarosh Altaf…check her out). And if you’ve spent any time with me, you’ll know that I’ve been doing that sort of thing for years, for a number of people and organizations.

So, this morning I post an article from a local newspaper about an art contest (Puget Sound Bird Fest poster art contest announced). Fun, great content to share and connect with the community. However, something with the way I posted the article made something with the Facebook algorithm think it was a job post. I didn’t catch that until we had a few applications come through. So, pulled down the post and sent apology messages to the applicants. A bit awkward, but nothing too horrible. What’s doubly puzzling, though, is that when I went and posted it a second time, from the publishing tools window, using the same language, hoping to see whether I missed something, or if it’s some weird “autocorrect” type of thing. But, nope, nothing. It posted the article on the way like I thought I had the first time. Weird.

Have any of you come across something like this with the spawn of Zuckerberg?