The latest update to Meta’s policy regarding use of the word “Zionist” comes as the tech titan behind Facebook and Instagram strives to balance free speech with hateful attacks on Jews.
“We will now remove content that targets ‘Zionists’ with dehumanizing comparisons, calls for harm, or denials of existence on the basis that ‘Zionist’ in those instances often appears to be a proxy for Jewish or Israeli people,” Meta said in a blog post.
The change expands on Meta’s approach of treating the reference as hate speech when it is used along with antisemitic imagery or clearly references the Jewish people.
Meta said it will remove content attacking “Zionists” when – rather than being tied to that political movement – it is pegged to antisemitic stereotypes such as claims they run the world or control the media.
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So when it comes to freedom of speech Facebook is better than Chinese social media because of … ???
I can’t believe some of my friends still use Facebook daily. What a shit site
Honestly, as a millennial, any friends I have in my generation that still use Facebook are the ones that sorta gave up on life.
I don’t see anyone age casually using Facebook. They’re either not using it all and have a dorman profile page, or they post 20+ things a day at all hours of the day.
“We will now remove content that targets ‘Zionists’ with dehumanizing comparisons, calls for harm, or denials of existence on the basis that ‘Zionist’ in those instances often appears to be a proxy for Jewish or Israeli people,” Meta said in a blog post.
So dehumanization and calls for harm are fine, as long as the target isn’t a proxy for Jews or Israelis?
It’s Facebook/Meta.
They’ll sell you the data and the means to spread dehumanising and hateful content on its platform.
No.
Why would a mega corp do such a thing …
Fuck Zionazis, they deserve a million more hateful attacks.
Fuck Meta for being an alt-right pipeline.
And fuck anyone trying to pretend antisemitism is anything but a tool to attack Palestinians and those critical of Israel these days.
anyone trying to pretend antisemitism is anything but a tool to attack Palestinians and those critical of Israel these days
i guess tree of life must have been in my imagination.
Hating haters is still hate…
NBD, I call them Nazis anywy
I mean yeah Zionist is generally used as a stand in for Jew
The line between anti-zioninist and anti-semitist has definitely been blurred to the point that assuming jew hatred is going to be the safest bet even if not correct in literally every case.
Absolutely correct.
You know what makes people antisemitic? Genocidal, land-grabbing fascists.
Sure sure. Let’s blame all the jews for that. I’m sure white supermacists, islamaphobists and nazies all have equally good justifications for their hatred as well.
Speaking of genocidal, land-grabbing fascists, do you know what “from river to the sea” means?
