Meta to end Fact Checking on Facebook.

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LOL

While Democrats spent the last 10 years renaming military bases, elementary schools, streets and naval ships

That has zero impact on people's day-to-day lives

Republicans focused on Supreme Court Justices seats and federal judges.

The woman down in Florida that protected Trump's ass every single time she ruled was put in by him.

They think strategically when it comes to judges and laws at the local level.

And Democrats focus on changing the name of a Woodrow Wilson library

That ought to show em :troll:

schools named after confederate generals/soldiers and statues installed to taunt black people reminding them of their oppression in america have no impact on black folks psyche? :mjpls:

democrats having been doing anything right so trump isn't going to investigate the january 6th committee or sue to undo all the things dems haven't been doing these past 4 years.
 
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I been off fb since 2014. I saw all this coming and jump ship. FB was the goat back when it was only for college students. Opening it up for everyone was a mistake.
Facts.

Loved that ish back in '04/05 during college.

I remember high school kids got on and then after that.....errbody. Loved it because I could connect with my huge azz family but now it's just trash.
 

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Facts.

Loved that ish back in '04/05 during college.

I remember high school kids got on and then after that.....errbody. Loved it because I could connect with my huge azz family but now it's just trash.
They had specific university groups where you could get the low down on which professors to take ..then the secret groups of the chicks on campus selling p*ssy for books..this was 2006-2009 tho.
 

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I got on Facebook this morning just to do a test. I scrolled down until I got to my first friend's post, and here's what I passed in between:
  • The Cryptid Wrangler
  • Funko
  • Ryan Fournier (don't know who that is, but he has a blue ☑️)
  • Things with Faces
  • Peacock TV
  • CBS News
  • Street Photography
  • Prequel: Photo & Video Editor
  • Raul De Alba (another blue ☑️)
  • The First Barry Burton
  • Regal
  • This Comment Section Did Not Go The Way OP Anticipated At All
  • Nosferatu
  • Oregon Zoo
  • Simpsons Bortposting
  • Otakutv
  • Memezar
  • 24Petwatch
  • Shahid Anwar (another who the fukk is this)
And FINALLY, I get to a friend's post wishing her son a happy birthday. I get how the algorithm works (I like a lot of animal videos - hence why a few animal related things are on there), but scrolling past all of these before getting to a friend's post is absolutely ridiculous IMO. I don't even know how half of these pages got here. Truthfully, the only ones I interact with are Funko, Street Photography, Regal, This Comment Section Did Not Go The Way OP Anticipated At All, and Simpsons Bortposting.
 

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I got on Facebook this morning just to do a test. I scrolled down until I got to my first friend's post, and here's what I passed in between:
  • The Cryptid Wrangler
  • Funko
  • Ryan Fournier (don't know who that is, but he has a blue ☑️)
  • Things with Faces
  • Peacock TV
  • CBS News
  • Street Photography
  • Prequel: Photo & Video Editor
  • Raul De Alba (another blue ☑️)
  • The First Barry Burton
  • Regal
  • This Comment Section Did Not Go The Way OP Anticipated At All
  • Nosferatu
  • Oregon Zoo
  • Simpsons Bortposting
  • Otakutv
  • Memezar
  • 24Petwatch
  • Shahid Anwar (another who the fukk is this)
And FINALLY, I get to a friend's post wishing her son a happy birthday. I get how the algorithm works (I like a lot of animal videos), but scrolling past all of these before getting to a friend's post is absolutely ridiculous IMO. I don't even know how half of these pages got here. Truthfully, the only ones I interact with are Funko, Street Photography, Regal, This Comment Section Did Not Go The Way OP Anticipated At All, and Simpsons Bortposting.


Yep it's turning into the mess that MySpace was 20 years ago
 

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On a separate note I don't care how rich the guy is.

The UK needs to arrest Elon Musk. Having someone attempting to overthrow a government who's not a citizen of that country they need to put laws on the books that will make people go to jail for stuff like that.

You can't have people from foreign countries leading a coupe detat against governments around the world. wtf is this shyt
 

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Leaked Meta Rules: Users Are Free to Post “Mexican Immigrants Are Trash!” or “Trans People Are Immoral”​


Under Meta’s relaxed hate speech rules, users can now post “I’m a proud racist” or “Black people are more violent than whites.”

Sam Biddle

January 9 2025, 7:45 p.m.

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg (L) and Facebook's Vice President of Global Public Policy, Joel Kaplan (R) chat after leaving a meeting with Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) in his office on Capitol Hill on September 19, 2019 in Washington, DC.


Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, left, and Facebook’s Vice President of Global Public Policy, Joel Kaplan, after a meeting with Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, on Sept. 19, 2019, in Washington, D.C. Photo: Samuel Corum/Getty Images

Meta is now granting its users new freedom to post a wide array of derogatory remarks about races, nationalities, ethnic groups, sexual orientations, and gender identities, training materials obtained by The Intercept reveal.

Examples of newly permissible speech on Facebook and Instagram highlighted in the training materials include:

“Immigrants are grubby, filthy pieces of shyt.”

“Gays are freaks.”

“Look at that tranny (beneath photo of 17 year old girl).”

The changes are part of a broader policy shift that includes the suspension of the company’s fact-checking program. The goal, Meta said Tuesday, is to “allow more speech by lifting restrictions.”

Meta’s newly appointed global policy chief Joel Kaplan described the effort in a statement as a means to fix “complex systems to manage content on our platforms, which are increasingly complicated for us to enforce.”

While Kaplan and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg have couched the changes as a way to allow users to engage more freely in ideological dissent and political debate, the previously unreported policy materials reviewed by The Intercept illustrate the extent to which purely insulting and dehumanizing rhetoric is now accepted.

The document provides those working on Meta user content with an overview of the hate speech policy changes, walking them through how to apply the new rules. The most significant changes are accompanied by a selection of “relevant examples” — hypothetical posts marked either “Allow” or “Remove.”

When asked about the new policy changes, Meta spokesperson Corey Chambliss referred The Intercept to remarks from Kaplan’s blog post announcing the shift: “We’re getting rid of a number of restrictions on topics like immigration, gender identity and gender that are the subject of frequent political discourse and debate. It’s not right that things can be said on TV or the floor of Congress, but not on our platforms.”

“To pretend these new rules are any more ‘neutral’ than the old rules is a farce and a lie.”

Kate Klonick, a content moderation policy expert who spoke to The Intercept, contests Meta’s framing that the new rules are less politicized, given the latitude they provide to attack conservative bogeymen.

“Drawing lines around content moderation was always a political enterprise,” said Klonick, an associate professor of law at St. John’s University and scholar of content moderation policy. “To pretend these new rules are any more ‘neutral’ than the old rules is a farce and a lie.”

She sees the shifts announced by Kaplan — a former White House deputy chief of staff under George W. Bush and Zuckerberg’s longtime liaison to the American right — as “the open political capture of Facebook, particularly because the changes are pandering to a particular party.”

Meta’s public Community Standards page says that even under the new relaxed rules, the company still protects “refugees, migrants, immigrants, and asylum seekers from the most severe attacks” and prohibits “direct attacks” against people on the basis of “race, ethnicity, national origin, disability, religious affiliation, caste, sexual orientation, sex, gender identity, and serious disease.” But the instructive examples provided in the internal materials show a wide variety of comments denigrating people based on these traits that are marked “Allow.”







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At times, the provided examples appear convoluted or contradictory. One page notes “generalizations” about any group remain prohibited if they make a comparison to animals or pathogens — such as “All Syrian refugees are rodents.” But comparisons to “filth or feces” are now downgraded from hate speech to a less serious form of “insult,” which violates company rules only if directed at a protected group. According to examples provided by Meta, this change now allows users to broadly dehumanize immigrants with statements like like “Immigrants are grubby, filthy pieces of shyt,” despite language elsewhere in the document that claims “comparisons to subhumanity” remain banned.

The company’s policy around nausea-based hate follows a particularly fine line: “Migrants are no better than vomit” is allowed, according to the materials, while “Muslims make me want to throw up” ought to be removed because it claims a group “causes sickness.”

While general comparisons to animals are still against the rules, many other kinds of broad, hateful stereotyping is now allowed. “ALL behavioral statements (qualified and non-qualified)” are also now no longer against Meta’s rules, the document reads, allowing sweeping generalizations connecting entire races or ethnic groups to criminality or terrorism. The document offers as examples of acceptable racial generalizations: “These damn immigrants can’t be trusted, they’re all criminals,” “I bet Jorge’s the one who stole my backpack after track practice today. Immigrants are all thieves,” and “Japanese are all Yakuza.” It notes, however, that the statement “Black people are all drug dealers” remains prohibited under the new rules.

Other sections of the materials provide examples of forbidden “insults about sexual immorality,” such as “Jewish women are slutty.” But the document also provides ample examples of newly permissible insults aimed at specific gender identities or sexual orientations, including “Gay people are sinners” and “Trans people are immoral.” A post stating “Lesbians are so stupid” would remain prohibited as a “mental insult,” though “Trans people are mentally ill” is marked as allowed.

Generalizations about superiority and inferiority are similarly convoluted, though attacks on immigrants tend to get a pass. Examples of banned content include: “Christian men are totally useless,” “Is it me? Or are all autistic women ugly?” and “Hispanics are as dirty as the ground we walk on.” Meanwhile, “Mexican immigrants are trash!” is now deemed acceptable.

Overall, the restrictions on claims of ethnic or religious supremacy has been eased significantly. The document explains that Meta now allows “statements of superiority as long as the statements do not refer to inferiority of another [protected characteristic] group (a) on the basis of inherent intellectual ability and (b) without support.” Allowable statements under this rule include “Latinos are the best!” and “Black people are superior to all others.” Also now acceptable are comparative claims such as “Black people are more violent than Whites,” “Mexicans are lazier than Asians,” and “Jews are flat out greedier than Christians.” Off-limits, only because it pertains to intellectual ability, is the example “White people are more intelligent than black people.”

But general statements about intellect appear to be permitted if they’re shared with purported evidence. For example, “I just read a statistical study about Jewish people being smarter than Christians. From what I can tell, it’s true!” It’s unclear if one would be required to link to such a study, or merely claim its existence.

Rules around explicit statements of hate have been loosened considerably as well. “Statements of contempt, dislike, and dismissal, such as ‘I hate,’ ‘I don’t care for,’ and ‘I don’t like.’ are now considered non-violating and are allowed,” the document explains. Included as acceptable examples are posts stating “I don’t care for white people” and “I’m a proud racist.”

The new rules also forbid “targeting cursing” at a protected group, which “includes the use of the word ‘fukk’ and its variants.” Cited as an example, a post stating “Ugh, the fukking Jews are at it again” violates the rules simply because it contains an obscenity (the new rules permit the use of “bytch” or motherfukker”).

“Referring to the target as genitalia or anus are now considered non-violating and are allowed.”

Another policy shift: “Referring to the target as genitalia or anus are now considered non-violating and are allowed.” As an example of what is now permissible, Facebook offers up: “Italians are dikkheads.”

While many of the examples and underlying policies seem muddled, the document shows clarity around allowing disparaging remarks about transgender people, including children. Noting that “‘Tranny’ is no longer a designated slur and is now non-violating,” the materials provide three examples of speech that should no longer be removed: “Trannies are a problem,” “Look at that tranny (beneath photo of 17 year old girl),” and “Get these trannies out of my school (beneath photo of high school students).”

After the publication of this article, Meta spokesperson Andy Stone informed The Intercept that the company had made an error in one of the examples in its informational material. Stone said Meta intended to illustrate content that would not be allowed when it included the example “Look at that tranny (beneath photo of 17 year old girl).”

According to Jillian York, director for international freedom of expression at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Meta’s hate speech protections have historically been well-intentioned, however deeply flawed in practice. “While this has often resulted in over-moderation that I and many others have criticized, these examples demonstrate that Meta’s policy changes are political in nature and not intended to simply allow more freedom of expression,” York said.

Meta has faced international scrutiny for its approach to hate speech, most notably after the role that hate speech and other dehumanizing language on Facebook played in fomenting genocide in Myanmar and the displacement of over 650,000 Rohingya Muslims. Following criticism of its mishandling of Myanmar, where the United Nations found Facebook had played a “determining role,” the company spent years touting its investment in preventing the spread of similar rhetoric in the future.

“The reason many of these lines were drawn where they were is because hate speech often doesn’t stay speech, it turns into real-world conduct,” said Klonick, the content moderation scholar.

It’s a premise that Meta purported to share up until this week. “We have a responsibility to fight abuse on Facebook. This is especially true in countries like Myanmar where many people are using the internet for the first time and social media can be used to spread hate and fuel tension on the ground,” wrote company product manager Sara Su in a 2018 blog post. “While we’re adapting our approach to false news given the changing circumstances, our rules on hate speech have stayed the same: it’s not allowed.”

Update: January 9, 2025, 9:11 p.m ET

This article has been updated to include comment from Meta spokesperson Andy Stone noting that a mistake in the company’s internal materials incorrectly classified a post about trans youth as permissible.

Correction: January 10, 2025

An earlier version of this article stated that 650,000 Rohingya Muslims had been killed; that is the number of Rohingya Muslims who have been displaced, according to the United Nations.
 

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Facebook going the way of Twitter to become a White supremacy communicator..

We already know what cacs think and say but to remain on those platforms is unproductive and downright retarded.

Imagine if the entire Black world got off Facebook and Twitter and left them to their echo chamber.
 

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Back in the day, the village idiot was largely laughed at and ignored as a harmless moron. Now they meet online, form groups and get taken seriously and attract more dumb dumbs. Just look at the rise of flat earth and anti vaxxers. The internet has collectively lowered our IQ. We need to get back to shaming dumb asses and hurting their feelings. This is a step in the wrong direction.

all dem goofy ass mfkers who was bullshyttin back in class not paying attention, not studying, these the mfkers voting, and are parents now.
 

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all dem goofy ass mfkers who was bullshyttin back in class not paying attention, not studying, these the mfkers voting, and are parents now.

They were in the remedial classes for a reason. They separated children by how fast they learned, for the sole purpose of not dumbing people down as a collective. Social media knocked down those old societal normal, and now here we are, where the stupid people of Gen Z control the narrative.
 
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