Meta blocks Barcelona theatre ads for Virginia Woolf play over 'social topics' filter
All these platforms were originally sold to us as being liberating tools of free speech and expression. Now they're being actively used by their owners to suppress it www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Mostly piratey39If you are ‘classifying words’, filtering content and advising changes then that makes you a publisher, no?
esmeraldastrongarm.bsky.social27So they could filter out Nazi stuff but they don’t
Irritated Llama13An afternoon on Facebook and your feed ends up like a copy of Der Stürmer. Far Right posts with tens of thousands of reactions and shares, organising marches and demonstrations. But those AREN'T activism?
Sir Andy KBE12I made the mistake of reading a post by Rupert Lowe last week. Within half a day my feed was full of Reform bots and fake "patriots" some of which were clearly duplicates. Took me a whole afternoon of blocking to get my feed same again.
Tinah The Queenah 🇵🇸7Almost like Elon selling himself as the green-energy, save-the-planet guy while Tesla benefited from a $465 million taxpayer-funded government loan - then, once the money was made and he was obscenely wealthy, completely changing direction. And now he want to cook the planet powering his AI empire.
kaybell27.bsky.social7The wealthy owners of these sites don't want free speech, the right encourages censorship and anyone who supports democracy looks to protect the rights of the individual while oligarchs look only to protect their own interests and generate greater profits. The only way to stop them is to legislate.
Paul Bernal25They were always being used that way, and many of us called them out for it. It’s all over Chapter 5 of my 2018 book.
Marcus 🏳️🌈🇧🇧22They can arrange pogroms on Facebook though
Irritated Llama13An afternoon on Facebook, and your feed ends up like a copy of Der Stürmer. Far Right posts with tens of thousands of reactions and shares, organising marches and demonstrations. Auditor content playing the algorithm. But those AREN'T activism?
Grumpy Philosopher7It‘s weird because in the years I used Facebook I reported so many cases of blatant racist, misogynistic, & anti-semitic hate speech & not once did Meta block it. Every single case of hate speech was found initially, & after review, in line with community guidelines.
Toria Banks5Artists and arts organisations must take this seriously and not just blithely continue to worry about being ‘good on socials’
Old Dog2Activism is how we move society forwards. Fuck Meta
A theatre in Barcelona has been banned from promoting a stage adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own on Instagram and Facebook because the work includes “social topics.”* www.theguardian.com/technology/2... * "any mention of civil rights, feminism or social reform"
Social Media Lab8Since we all now answer to the algorithms, according to Meta, the theatre is the one responsible for changing its advertising, not the algorithms.
RydenTheCanuck 🇨🇦 🇺🇸3Meta is advertising cocaine and illegal quantities of cannabis on Facebook, but sure, ideas from an acclaimed writer are forbidden. What an asshat organization.
Shared Ground2That explains why I have less and less inclination to even open the apps of these platforms. I want to preserve my education.
Meta has banned ads for a stage adaptation of Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own. The offending content: the word feminism. Woolf, dead since 1941, remains too dangerous for an algorithm.
