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"After reaching out to Meta about why the promo campaign had been stomped out, the company replied that “any mention of civil rights, feminism or social reform are usually classified as ‘social topics’ by our automatic system,” and therefore rejected."
Wow.
God forbid you talk about social topics on SOCIAL media…
Sounds like you need some reeducation.
I see incredibly violent and bigoted content all the time on Meta platforms and always report it. Rarely does anything get taken down. But feminism bad I suppose.
Nazi? Fine. Hate? No problem. Scams? That's free speech.
Women? Oh it's time to do something!
Racism? Yeah, that's cool.
Wishing racists were dead? That's a banning.
That was last week
“Such speech may be offensive to many, but it is not Meta’s role to police offensiveness,” the company added.
Yet "social topics" they don't agree with are banned lol
Also
they were able to earn money on their posts through the platform’s “Content Monetization” program — which is invitation-only.
I'm actually glad it's invitation-only because there are some subjects on which I could write great informative content that would likely have great engagement from the people interested in those niches, but this way I'm not even tempted to log in and start posting lol
feminism is a contradiction to toxic manosphere thats why, and meta needs a conservative voting base to stay alive.
Yet half of the ads on Mega platforms are literal scams
I wonder if they would allow TERF ads. Or is that still too feminist for them?
thankfully TERFs are never about the F part, they're mostly just TERs.
Trans-Exclusionary Radicals
They only react with cis isomeric alkenes?
Meta wants to be the global town square, but apparently Virginia Woolf and feminism are too dangerous for its ad system. Meanwhile the company keeps asking us to trust its algorithms with billions of people’s speech. If Meta can’t distinguish feminist literature from prohibited content, maybe it shouldn’t be the internet’s self appointed censor.
While allowing scam and porn ads on there that harm millions of people
It’s amazing how blantly they allow scam ads. I reported ads for stolen credit cards and counterfeit money and meta closed my reports stating there was nothing wrong with the ads. What is this? The dark web?
They're directly incentivized to allow scams, since over 10% of their total revenue comes from scams
STOP.
USING.
FACEBOOK.
The problem is that this isn't like Microsoft Office > LibreOffice/OnlyOffice/whatever. You're not on Facebook for Facebook, you're on Facebook for the people there. It's why I have a lot of issues getting off of YouTube. I'm not on YouTube because their interface is nice, I'm on YouTube because the people I want to watch don't post shit elsewhere. It's a cycle, to get users we need stuff, and for stuff we need creators, and for creators we need users. When it comes to online platforms we don't need an alternative to YouTube, we need an alternative to Markiplier, which is harder to come up with.
If you can get your friends, and family onto Friendica that would help quite a bit. The problem is that using a new server is hard for the end user (I would know, all of my fediverse presence is on servers I host), and telling someone "Use Friendica" is like telling someone to "Use email". Get a Friendica/Mastodon/Whatever server, and keep it in your back pocket. Give them a link to that server, not to Friendica/Mastodon/Whatever as a whole.
Admittedly I don't know how hard it is to stop using Facebook because I stopped using Facebook right after they took away the chronological timeline, and stopped using Messenger a few years ago. But spending some time to get a timeline together that you can boost will help any new users you recruit. Crucially, to promote viable alternatives, you need to be part of the viable alternatives, otherwise you're just someone telling someone to jump into something new with 0 guidance, which is a good way to have them leave.
I stopped using Facebook years ago.
Before there were viable alternatives.
The idea that you need Facebook because there aren't significant alternatives is just not true.
"Stop being political!" say the people running the manufactured hate machine.
"stop saying things we dont like" is what they mean
The production in question is an adaptation of “A Room of One’s Own,” a book by the legendary English author and feminist Virginia Woolf. According to the Teatre Raval, planned promotional posts about the show were blocked on both Instagram and Facebook, likely by an automated content moderation system.
After reaching out to Meta about why the promo campaign had been stomped out, the company replied that “any mention of civil rights, feminism or social reform are usually classified as ‘social topics’ by our automatic system,” and therefore rejected.
According to the Guardian, the company then cryptically recommended the Raval remove “key words” related to social activism, so the promo campaign can pass the automated censor — though the company failed to explain what, exactly, its content system objected to.
”We don’t know if the publicity has been rejected because of the name of Virginia Woolf or because of the word feminism, or both,” Clara Sanchis, who stars in the one-woman show told the Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia, per the Guardian, which translated the comments.
“In any case, it’s a way of erasing from the map advances that have taken centuries to achieve,” Sanchis continued. “We have given social media unlimited power and every day we can see how dangerous this is. It’s bias and manipulation.”
It’s not going to stop at Meta just like it did not stop at Roe v Wade being overturned.
I’m sick of men telling me that I’m overreacting about these issues.
There is no over-reaction to actual censorship.
Absolutely. It's not just the censorship though - it's the attack on women's rights that I'm referencing.
Lol. Feminism should be the standard. Everything else is simply sexism.
This is the problem with social media. Outrage drives clicks, so "feminism" is portrayed as a caricature of brightly died hair, "ugly" women, feeble men, and the stereotype of unemployed art students.
It's exactly what we were warned about in books like 1984 and animal farm. The media controls thoughts, who controls the media?
facebook has become such a sinister platform. i've witnessed several members of my family become radicalized by their algorithms pushing conspiratorial rhetoric. the worst part? they refuse to use anything else. there's just something about facebook that has them convinced it's reputable.
It creates the illusion of socializing while using the Fox News formula of alternating between titillation and fear. That and youtube idiots and podcast bros have ruined so many people's lives.
Oh so they are capable of banning the ones they don't like, just not the ones that are actively harmful and illegal?
Fuck off meta. Really wish more people would stop using their shit. Shun those who work for them while you are at it. You work for the nonce glasses company? Eww
So they can actively steer and/or block ad content. Judges of the world, please take note.
Meta’s content moderation system stepped in ... on the grounds that it violated a rule on promoting “social topics...”
Advertising is social by its very nature and I can't imagine any sort of serious ad that wouldn't fall under that "social" umbrella.
An ad that suggested "Stay home and do nothing" would still be a case of one human being reaching out to another human being.
I know my reasoning isn't going to make Meta crumble, but I do want to make it clear how dishonest and craven this is.
what the actual fuck. almost every week I hear about Meta failing to remove scams, child porn or hateful shit from their platforms, and now this..?
enormous amounts of people are hanging in a Nazi bar everyday but they're just too comfortably addicted to do otherwise. it's sick
The fact that these morons are destroying the world with impunity, openly, and no one is even attempting to regulate it is the wildest part of this timeline. They've brainwashed how many countries now? And people are just watching and waiting to be picked off.
while promoting or ignoring CSAM, and possibly SA.
Fuck zuck. Of course a pathetic man like him would fight feminism as soon as he felt comfortable doing so
