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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.

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[–] 87Six@lemmy.zip 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Antifa antifa antifa antifa antifa oh damn looks like lemmy is not yet ruled by pedophiles

[–] LittleBorat3@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Here's how you have to talk on YouTube about this "Mamifa ... mamifa ...PDF files"

[–] 87Six@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 days ago

Yea I know, and schmurder and unalive and that shit

Fuck them all

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago

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?

[–] atcorebcor@sh.itjust.works 8 points 6 days ago

I think the word is mostly used by the far right anyways

[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

Imma bout to get banned on instagram…

[–] motruck@lemmy.zip 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Good. People who still utilize these properties should be abused until they realize they can use a different service.

[–] GenosseFlosse@feddit.org 2 points 6 days ago

I think this would only push antifaschist users out, and leave the platform with only nazis and indifferent people.

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 days ago

I would love to see a series of comics featuring Uncle Sam and Auntie Fay as like, a modern Archie and Edith. Or maybe as bitter divorcees but Sam is always shooting himself in the foot and blaming it on his ex-wife Fay, but she's logical and always catches him in his own trap with some sort of clever fourth-panel punchline.

[–] LittleBorat3@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Antifa is not really a thing, they could also call it anti personal hygiene club because that's kind of how they smell.

Also there is a diversity of leftwing ideas that are at odds with each other.

The MAGA right tries to make this into an organization with clear goals and that's just ridiculous.

[–] kylie_kraft@lemmy.world 142 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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!

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 69 points 1 week ago

The only criterion is: are billionaires into it, or does it threaten them?

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[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 80 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (27 children)

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.

[–] eldebryn@lemmy.world 32 points 1 week ago (6 children)

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.

[–] zeejoo@thelemmy.club 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

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.

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[–] SleeplessCityLights@programming.dev 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I really hope enough people know this.

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[–] Anivia@feddit.org 8 points 1 week ago

No anti-fascist calls themselves antifa

Maybe in murica, but not in Germany

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[–] Janx@piefed.social 69 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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...

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The right love their bogeymen.

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[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world 56 points 1 week ago (2 children)

You cannot be pro Democracy without being Antifa. If you do not support fascism, you are antifa.

[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] gnufuu@infosec.pub 10 points 1 week ago

Anti Antifa = Fa

[–] itisileclerk@lemmy.world 52 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So, anti fascism is not allowed in USA? Understandable, it want not allowed in Italy 1922-1943 nor in Germany 1933-1945.

[–] encelado748@feddit.org 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Italy has always been a trend setter. Trump is just a cheap mashup of Berlusconi and Mussolini

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

And netynahu is Hitler

[–] leoj@piefed.social 42 points 1 week ago

As a self proclaimed leftist who has been to many protests, I have never once heard anyone say the word Antifa except for my Maga boss when he thought Antifa was going to come and rob his house after the BLM protests...

[–] XLE@piefed.social 31 points 1 week ago (1 children)

tl;dr this new policy is dumb and bad. References to specific things like Antifa make no logical sense as a grounds for censorship, because there were already reasonable rules in place to handle actual problems.

In some cases, the content that Meta considers a threat signal is commonsensical. If, for instance, a user mentions bringing a weapon to an event, the company flags it as a threat signal. But in other cases, Meta’s process for identifying threat signals is more vague. Under the new rules, Meta might trigger a threat signal when a user posts a “visual depiction of a weapon,” a “reference to arson, theft, or vandalism,” or “military language,” if accompanied by the word “antifa.”

If “antifa” is mentioned in the context of “references to historical or recent incidents of violence” — a category so sprawling that it includes “historic wars” and “battles” — that post will also be penalized. Should Meta apply this rule as written, the company could, for instance, restrict posts comparing the antifascist nature of World War II to the contemporary antifa movement.

It's difficult to believe any intellectual discussion would happen on Facebook, but this rule further cements the suppression of it.

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[–] TwinTitans@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago

I can’t believe anybody uses products from this company anymore.

[–] prex@aussie.zone 20 points 1 week ago
[–] ImmersiveMatthew@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 week ago (7 children)

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.

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[–] DisgruntledGorillaGang@reddthat.com 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] FaygoRedPop@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

So the bots and borderline mentally handicapped senior citizens that use Facebook can no longer say "antifa".

Whatever.

I have a Facebook account with a fake name so I can peruse Marketplace. The shit that it tried to get me view is literally insane. A outrage inducing AI post that's clearly fake with thousands of comments littered with spelling errors that are barely even readable. Facebook makes me realize how Trump was elected. People are very very very stupid. Go see for yourself. You won't believe your eyes.

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[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Is "Pro-Constitution" and "Anti-Tyranny" gonna be on a list of banned words?

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[–] stickly@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

No no officer I didn't say antifa. I said I was a fashopp (Fascism Opponent)

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