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Facebook shuts down swedish pro kurdish page

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Re: Facebook shuts down swedish pro kurdish page

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Post by csvan »

I suspect this is due to the algorithms handling reports - not an actual human action. Atheist Republic - a massive community for atheists and skeptics on FB - was also taken down after being report-bombed by malicious users, this despite the fact that it was not in serious violation of any FB rules.

Re: Facebook shuts down swedish pro kurdish page

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Post by noobie »

csvan wrote: post #2

I suspect this is due to the algorithms handling reports - not an actual human action. Atheist Republic - a massive community for atheists and skeptics on FB - was also taken down after being report-bombed by malicious users, this despite the fact that it was not in serious violation of any FB rules.

I think you mean "bigoted" rather than "malicious".

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Post by Trombone12 »

csvan wrote: post #2

I suspect this is due to the algorithms handling reports - not an actual human action. Atheist Republic - a massive community for atheists and skeptics on FB - was also taken down after being report-bombed by malicious users, this despite the fact that it was not in serious violation of any FB rules.

That would explain another incident recently, where a blog post about leaving a certain political party in Sweden was blocked, while a FB group with the name "legalize rape" was deemed appropriate.

Move fast and break things indeed.

Re: Facebook shuts down swedish pro kurdish page

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Post by Trombone12 »

noobie wrote: post #4
csvan wrote: post #2

I suspect this is due to the algorithms handling reports - not an actual human action. Atheist Republic - a massive community for atheists and skeptics on FB - was also taken down after being report-bombed by malicious users, this despite the fact that it was not in serious violation of any FB rules.

I think you mean "bigoted" rather than "malicious".

There is no need to be bigoted to be malicious, and indeed you can be bigoted without taking malicious action.

Re: Facebook shuts down swedish pro kurdish page

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Post by noobie »

Trombone12 wrote: post #6
noobie wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think you mean "bigoted" rather than "malicious".

There is no need to be bigoted to be malicious, and indeed you can be bigoted without taking malicious action.

Given that

    malicious: intending or intended to do harm.

    bigoted: having prejudiced intolerance of the opinions of others.
I was only merely pointing out that reporting an atheist page is simply the result of intolerance and not of an intention to harm.

Re: Facebook shuts down swedish pro kurdish page

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Post by nailer »

csvan wrote: post #2

I suspect this is due to the algorithms handling reports - not an actual human action. Atheist Republic - a massive community for atheists and skeptics on FB - was also taken down after being report-bombed by malicious users, this despite the fact that it was not in serious violation of any FB rules.

Argumentative takedowns like this pretty common. I wonder if an account diversity algo could help identify legitimate reports?
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