The policy change follows years of Meta and its chief executive Mark Zuckerberg’s pivot of political convenience toward President Donald Trump and his base. Following Trump’s second electoral victory, Meta quickly changed its speech rules to allow for anti-transgender slurs and dehumanization of immigrants, The Intercept previously reported, aligning the company with longtime MAGA culture war grievances.
Asked about the new restrictions on the word “antifa,” Meta spokesperson Erica Sackin pointed to a March transparency report that noted the company would “remove QAnon and Antifa content when combined with content-level threat signals.” The report does not explain what those signals are. Meta did not respond when asked if the company had discussed its antifa speech rules with the Trump administration.
Meta largely outsources the enforcement of its Community Standards rules to low-paid contractors whose interpretation and application of the policies can vary. The company’s automated, algorithmic content moderation systems are also famously glitchy. This combination can result in erratic censorship, particularly when political ideology is classified as violent or terroristic.
The only time I ever see the word used is by some conservative Karen bleating about how it’s a terrorist org or whatever, so nice self-own I guess?
I think the word is mostly used by the far right anyways
So, anti fascism is not allowed in USA? Understandable, it want not allowed in Italy 1922-1943 nor in Germany 1933-1945.
This is why Facebook is banned in China and should be in any civilized country. It’s nothing but an extension of US soft power and its fascist imperialist tentacles.
child exploitation and hate speech, cool cool cool. any mention of a loose-knit global movement against fascism that has existed for decades, that’s dangerous. priorities!
Here’s everybody’s reminder that every WWII vet (at least from the Allied forces) was antifa.
You cannot be pro Democracy without being Antifa. If you do not support fascism, you are antifa.
I am now a terrorist (=
Conservative voters are so stupid, they actually think Antifa and Anonymous are official, trademarked, centralized organizations. Just start saying the full thing, “anti-fascist” when describing protestors, etc…
The right love their bogeymen.
Gotta have an other to point at.
No anti-fascist calls themselves antifa and being anti-fascist is the default state of being for every single person who is not a fascist.
‘Antifa’ is a fabricated scare term prompted by the right-wing elite’s media influence campaign. It exists as a term in order to imply that there is some actual secret organization which can be presented as the boogey man to scare working-class people and/or to label as a terrorist organization so the elites in power can use the power of law enforcement to attack and jail their monied political opponents by claiming their association with or funding of a ‘known domestic terror group’.
Anything saying ‘antifa’ on social media is either intentional propaganda or the ignorant masses propagating those same memes.
That’s really not true. I’ve seen the term antifa (standing for anti-fascism) used plenty for many decades now.
We’ve had antifa spray tags in my school’s walls.
It may seems obscure to some parts of the world but for those of us who suffered under fascism multiple times (south Europe) it’s a very familiar phrase from a long time before trump become president.
In the US though he’s absolutely correct. It’s just not a term anyone but MAGAts use. This rule really is only gonna censor the people trying to fear monger, and not any actual “antifa members” because they don’t exist.
not any actual “antifa members” because they don’t exist.
Well, I guess that explains how easy it was to establish fascism in the US.
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I’ve seen the term antifa (standing for anti-fascism) used plenty for many decades now.
Oh excuse me for not assuming every single person online is an american citizen.
IDGAF. The world is more than the US and americans need to wake up and realize this one day. They are not perfect and neither is anyone else, we’re a bunch of imperfect idiots trying to share a rock in space. And this requires empathy.
This thread is specifically about “QAnon and Antifa content" and if Meta “had discussed its antifa speech rules with the Trump administration.”
Yes, the world is more than the US, but we are discussing censorship in the US so the labeling of any dissenting opinion as Antifa is a trick specific to the Trump administration.
Highlighting that the Google Trends for this term in the US only becomes relevant after 2016 is highly relevant.
Looks like Zuck is all in and has no choice but to support evil, because if/when the evil collapses, so does Zuck. Must be stressful for him as history has shown that this behaviour eventually catches up to them. Sadly, some make it too old age and run entire countries before it catches up which causes a lot of unnecessary suffering.
social media has been twisting itself to protect conservatives and right wing political terrorism since damn near the beginning.
Its where their bread and butter are. Right wing idiots following right wing demagogues spouting right wing bullshit are the ones that dont run adblockers, that click all the ads (Especially if its for merchandise for their chosen political team), and generate disproportionate amounts of money.
