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Re:Facebook Incubated the Insurrection by mrweasel on Thursday January 14, 2021 @10:42AM (#25777671)
A couple of teenagers where driving mopeds in other peoples yards this morning. Someone on Facebook suggested dealing with the problem by hitting them with a baseball bat. That hasn’t been taken down and it won’t.

If you write in a less spoken language Facebook struggle to moderate you. Unless you’re trying to sell animals, because they spot that in seconds.

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Re:Facebook Incubated the Insurrection by Nextgrid on Thursday January 14, 2021 @11:34AM (#25778382)
> Unless you’re trying to sell animals, because they spot that in seconds.

Facebook is happy to let bad content stay and profit off it unless said content carries a risk of bringing bad PR; I'm assuming this is the case with the "selling animals" thing because some animal rights groups escalated the issue to the media, and it is now the case with anything Trump- or election-related (not that I'm defending said content, but pointing out that its removal is for PR reasons as opposed to Facebook actually caring about democracy or discouraging violence).

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