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Facebook bans Holocaust film for violating race policy

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Re: Facebook bans Holocaust film for violating race policy

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Post by ben_w »

darthrupert wrote: post #6

Recently Farcebook has started recommending incredibly toxic anti-SJW shit to me for no apparent reason. Either they turned the "let's incite toxicity" knob to 11 or somebody is seriously abusing them.

Possibly, but not the only explanations — my feed is now more than 50% suggested/promoted content, including Fox News Tampa, even though I'm living in a different city in a different state in a different country in a different continent and almost all of my friends are further to the left than even the left-most US Democrat.

If I had to guess, the bottom has fallen out of the advertising market and every business reliant on selling adverts is getting desperate.

Re: Facebook bans Holocaust film for violating race policy

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Post by cranium »

bwb wrote: post #2

I was just talking to an author who published an ad on Facebook for their sci fi book. They had the word "beat" in the ad. The FB algo said that words intills people to violence, banned her account for 2 months, and kept all the ad money. Funny enough, her book is about the dangers of an algorithm-based AI supersystem... Facebook is the worst.

It's fearsome how they filter such words without looking at the context or giving the benefit of the doubt. Now, you have to proactively reword your ideas to make them fit the invisible mold. How has newspeak been going for the public discourse ?

Re: Facebook bans Holocaust film for violating race policy

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Post by noneeeed »

ben_w wrote: post #11
darthrupert wrote: post #6

Recently Farcebook has started recommending incredibly toxic anti-SJW shit to me for no apparent reason. Either they turned the "let's incite toxicity" knob to 11 or somebody is seriously abusing them.

Possibly, but not the only explanations — my feed is now more than 50% suggested/promoted content, including Fox News Tampa, even though I'm living in a different city in a different state in a different country in a different continent and almost all of my friends are further to the left than even the left-most US Democrat. If I had to guess, the bottom has fallen out of the advertising market and every business rel…

The FB feed has become utterly drenched in suggested content, 99% of which is trash.

I'm sure they will see some short term bump but I've got to wonder if this is finally the end for them. I'm certainly not bothering to check it any more.

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Post by icare_1er »

bwb wrote: post #2

I was just talking to an author who published an ad on Facebook for their sci fi book. They had the word "beat" in the ad. The FB algo said that words intills people to violence, banned her account for 2 months, and kept all the ad money. Funny enough, her book is about the dangers of an algorithm-based AI supersystem... Facebook is the worst.

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Post by mrpopo »

icare_1er wrote: post #15
bwb wrote: post #2

I was just talking to an author who published an ad on Facebook for their sci fi book. They had the word "beat" in the ad. The FB algo said that words intills people to violence, banned her account for 2 months, and kept all the ad money. Funny enough, her book is about the dangers of an algorithm-based AI supersystem... Facebook is the worst.

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No, this is the result of the laziness of social networks to look for automated solutions to solve at-scale (read: at the lowest cost) problems of their own making.

More generally this is the result of giving free rein on global discourse to unregulated companies, who ultimately took full advantage and profiteed off of it.

Re: Facebook bans Holocaust film for violating race policy

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Post by hugh-avherald »

darthrupert wrote: post #6

Recently Farcebook has started recommending incredibly toxic anti-SJW shit to me for no apparent reason. Either they turned the "let's incite toxicity" knob to 11 or somebody is seriously abusing them.

For me it's mostly Elon Musk-endorsed, government-backed $250k/yr guaranteed return investments in bitcoin.

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Post by gambiting »

Trifectaffe6 wrote: post #10

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>>This is fundamentally anti-White hate-porn that plays into tired and often ridiculously racist "Nazi" stereotypes.

I literally cannot believe anyone would write this in earnest. Please tell me it's some kind of (very poor) joke.

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