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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.
advertisements shouldn't look like actual content, not like that stopped them before but ads really shouldn't look like real content
not that i'm a meta fan, I fucking hate that company, but this swings both ways. Imagine your local coffee shop is boosting posts about traditional marriage and pro-life themes. They get blocked as well.
I just don't go to that coffee shop. Problem solved. They can say whatever they want. If I don't support it I don't go. I don't see how the coffee shop argument hold up. And if enough people hold the same views they close.
Meta however is too big to fail. Which gives them a free pass to pass their cancerous views onto society while knowing no matter how much the general public hates them and their shitty views they will continue to use the platform because their friends and family still use it. Enshittification. If my coffee shop enshittifies I tell them to pound sand.
good for you.
There are other options. Friendica? People have no boundaries. Society deserves what they get at this point.
There's no way to get around "any mention of civil rights" though. That covers all humans.
They do pay "content creators" who have views on the opposite side of the political aisle and when caught paying far-right activists, they said:
While PAYING to advertise a book with feminism as a theme is not OK. They're clearly pushing an agenda.
wouldn't doubt it
Maybe. This was an advertisement for a book that had those themes.
Personally, I don't want either to be excluded.
We going to ban Churches from showing the cross next?
ya bro, we're going to ban churches from showing crosses next. you got it.