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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.

"Stop being political!" say the people running the manufactured hate machine.

"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.

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.

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.

1. STOP.

2. USING.

3. FACEBOOK.

Meanwhile, literal scams and porn:

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.

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.

while promoting or ignoring CSAM, and possibly SA.

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

Lol. Feminism should be the standard. Everything else is simply sexism.

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.

Yet half of the ads on Mega platforms are literal scams

I don't get why Instagram is still so incredibly popular in 2026.

But hardcore porn is perfectly fine.

Nobody needs meta. Just stop using any of their products.

I can't think of the last time I used Facebook or anything related to it, my life is better for it.

Just leave them behind.

I wonder if they would allow TERF ads. Or is that still too feminist for them?

Fuck zuck. Of course a pathetic man like him would fight feminism as soon as he felt comfortable doing so

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.

Did you know, if you use uBlock origin, you can add these to your "My Filters" custom filter list:

||facebook.com^  
||instagram.com^  

And you'll never accidentally surf to one of those again?