Responding to reports earlier this week about the censorship Facebook contacted PCMag to say that it had made a mistake and that the underlying issue had been rectified.

"This enforcement was in error and has since been addressed. Discussions of Linux are allowed on our services," said a Meta rep.

Copenhagen-hosted DistroWatch says it appealed against the Community Standards-triggered ban shortly after it noticed it was in effect (January 19). PCMag received Facebook's admission of error on January 28.

The latest statement from DistroWatch, which now prefers posting on Mastodon, indicates that Facebook has lifted the DistroWatch links ban.

Meta didn't say what caused the crackdown in the first place. However, the company has been revamping some of its content moderation and plans to replace its fact-checking methodology with user-driven Community Notes, similar to X.

"We're also going to change how we enforce our policies to reduce the kind of mistakes that account for the vast majority of the censorship on our platforms," the company said earlier this month, in another irony.

"Up until now, we have been using automated systems to scan for all policy violations, but this has resulted in too many mistakes and too much content being censored that shouldn't have been," Meta added in the same post.