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Re:Facebook blocked posts by a militia group opposed to the ... by Ahmed90 on Sunday February 28, 2021 @07:41AM (#26292984)
It's an obvious "following the local law" thingy, Facebook doesn't give a s*t, I personally reported 3 posts on different FB pages

1st was a religion extremist guy who says to Iraqi people that they should protest and fight the "other side" of the religion (aka start a new civil war) instead of protesting against the corrupted government.

2nd was a post that was praising the guy who murdered the Danish (Or was he Norwegian?) teacher who mocked Islam, and calling him a hero.

and the 3rd was a post that says "Women education is satanic, women's purpose is marriage".

all of these 3 reports was "The post was reviewed, and though it doesn't go against one of our specific Community Standards" and then it explains how to block blablabla... I don't report things anymore lol

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Re:Facebook blocked posts by a militia group opposed to the ... by input_sh on Sunday February 28, 2021 @12:54PM (#26295286)
I've given up during the time when ISIS regularly posted videos on social media. I've reported a video with a literal beheading about two thirds of the video in, and it didn't go against Facebook's community standards.

I guess whichever moderator saw it didn't bother to skip ahead during those like 5-10 seconds they reach their decision in.

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Re:Facebook blocked posts by a militia group opposed to the ... by Bombthecat on Sunday February 28, 2021 @02:07PM (#26296076)
They probably don't have the time. Next time report with timestamp?
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Re:Facebook blocked posts by a militia group opposed to the ... by coffeefirst on Sunday February 28, 2021 @06:05PM (#26297954)
There's no comment box, it's just a dropdown list. You can't pass them that sort of detail.

The moderators absolutely have my sympathy. The people who designed this system do not.

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Re:Facebook blocked posts by a militia group opposed to the ... by coffeefirst on Sunday February 28, 2021 @12:33PM (#26295088)
Yeah, I've reported a bunch of stuff, all of it egregious. I have an inbox full of "thank you but this does not violate our community standards" to show for it.
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Re:Facebook blocked posts by a militia group opposed to the ... by laurent92 on Sunday February 28, 2021 @07:54AM (#26293062)
Facebook has so much power with censoring only one side of the extremists. A good experiment would be if you could find a Christian priest to report, and check whether their response is weighted differently.
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Re:Facebook blocked posts by a militia group opposed to the ... by tonyedgecombe on Sunday February 28, 2021 @08:20AM (#26293231)
A good experiment would be ...

That would be an anecdote just as Ahmed's findings were anecdotal. It you want to check for bias you need data.

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Re:Facebook blocked posts by a militia group opposed to the ... by ethanwillis on Sunday February 28, 2021 @08:54AM (#26293419)
Data that Facebook is fighting hard to make sure people can't collect. Just like how they were poisoning the well while suing academic teams just trying to get information on ads data.
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Re:Facebook blocked posts by a militia group opposed to the ... by throwaway1777 on Sunday February 28, 2021 @10:35AM (#26294074)
Cambridge analytica killed any kind of large scale data access to FB.
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Re:Facebook blocked posts by a militia group opposed to the ... by ttt0 on Sunday February 28, 2021 @10:43AM (#26294136)
Well, Facebook won't ever release their data, so I guess there cannot be any wrongdoing whatsoever.
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Re:Facebook blocked posts by a militia group opposed to the ... by colejohnson66 on Sunday February 28, 2021 @08:09AM (#26293166)
Interestingly, I've had more success reporting on Instagram than Facebook...
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Re:Facebook blocked posts by a militia group opposed to the ... by toxik on Sunday February 28, 2021 @12:15PM (#26294890)
Paty was French, where did you get Danish or Norwegian from?
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Re:Facebook blocked posts by a militia group opposed to the ... by wreath on Sunday February 28, 2021 @12:23PM (#26294982)
Probably confused with the Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard
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Re:Facebook blocked posts by a militia group opposed to the ... by Ahmed90 on Sunday February 28, 2021 @12:19PM (#26294933)
Idk, a brain fart I guess.
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