{"id":10810,"date":"2025-07-11T11:03:05","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T15:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/?p=10810"},"modified":"2025-07-11T12:14:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T16:14:04","slug":"former-town-councilor-on-anonymous-facebook-posts-i-know-who-they-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/?p=10810","title":{"rendered":"Video: Former Town Councilor on Anonymous Facebook Posts &#8211; I know who they are"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Former Town Councilor John Farrell\u00a0discussing\u00a0anonymous Facebook posts at the 7\/9\/2025 Library Trustee meeting. Farrell asserts that\u00a0Facebook group administrators are aware of the identities of anonymous posters, some of whom are\u00a0members of the Leach Library Board of Trustees. He expresses that\u00a0he knows who has written about him\u00a0and encourages a\u00a0more mature and kind approach\u00a0to online interactions within their community. Farrell implies that the\u00a0lack of kindness\u00a0in these anonymous posts is detrimental to what he believes is a\u00a0great town.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Farrell did not state which Facebook groups are releasing names.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While I am not a fan of anonymous posts these assertions are concerning. Are Admins of local Facebook groups disclosing the names of resident posting anonymously?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Former Town Councilor, John Farrell, Speaks about Anonymous Facebook Posts\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oHvhz_Ew9lo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Town Councilor John Farrell\u00a0discussing\u00a0anonymous Facebook posts at the 7\/9\/2025 Library Trustee meeting. Farrell asserts that\u00a0Facebook group administrators are aware of the identities of anonymous posters, some of whom are\u00a0members of the Leach Library Board of Trustees. He expresses that\u00a0he knows who has written about him\u00a0and encourages a\u00a0more mature and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10810"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10812,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10810\/revisions\/10812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}