The policy change follows years of Meta and its chief executive Mark Zuckerberg’s pivot of political convenience toward President Donald Trump and his base. Following Trump’s second electoral victory, Meta quickly changed its speech rules to allow for anti-transgender slurs and dehumanization of immigrants, The Intercept previously reported, aligning the company with longtime MAGA culture war grievances.
Asked about the new restrictions on the word “antifa,” Meta spokesperson Erica Sackin pointed to a March transparency report that noted the company would “remove QAnon and Antifa content when combined with content-level threat signals.” The report does not explain what those signals are. Meta did not respond when asked if the company had discussed its antifa speech rules with the Trump administration.
Meta largely outsources the enforcement of its Community Standards rules to low-paid contractors whose interpretation and application of the policies can vary. The company’s automated, algorithmic content moderation systems are also famously glitchy. This combination can result in erratic censorship, particularly when political ideology is classified as violent or terroristic.
Antifa antifa antifa antifa antifa oh damn looks like lemmy is not yet ruled by pedophiles
I think the word is mostly used by the far right anyways
This is why Facebook is banned in China and should be in any civilized country. It’s nothing but an extension of US soft power and its fascist imperialist tentacles.
Hahaha. If only the US government were more than a bunch of bafoons with too much power. You are giving everyone in the government too much credit for their abilities.
Imma bout to get banned on instagram…
Good. People who still utilize these properties should be abused until they realize they can use a different service.
I think this would only push antifaschist users out, and leave the platform with only nazis and indifferent people.
I would love to see a series of comics featuring Uncle Sam and Auntie Fay as like, a modern Archie and Edith. Or maybe as bitter divorcees but Sam is always shooting himself in the foot and blaming it on his ex-wife Fay, but she’s logical and always catches him in his own trap with some sort of clever fourth-panel punchline.
is that the same guy claiming that there should be no moderation on Facebook for “true freedom” and who cried his eyes out telling stories of horrible Democracts making him take out deranged individuals off platform? Well…
So, anti fascism is not allowed in USA? Understandable, it want not allowed in Italy 1922-1943 nor in Germany 1933-1945.
Italy has always been a trend setter. Trump is just a cheap mashup of Berlusconi and Mussolini
And netynahu is Hitler
Archive link, no BS scripts
Well, no BS scripts other than the DDOS ones. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/wikipedia-bans-archive-today-after-site-executed-ddos-and-altered-web-captures/
You cannot be pro Democracy without being Antifa. If you do not support fascism, you are antifa.
I am now a terrorist (=
We all are
Anti Antifa = Fa
Conservative voters are so stupid, they actually think Antifa and Anonymous are official, trademarked, centralized organizations. Just start saying the full thing, “anti-fascist” when describing protestors, etc…
I for one am a proud member of ITSWA (international t-shirt wearer association)
The right love their bogeymen.
Gotta have an other to point at.
child exploitation and hate speech, cool cool cool. any mention of a loose-knit global movement against fascism that has existed for decades, that’s dangerous. priorities!
Here’s everybody’s reminder that every WWII vet (at least from the Allied forces) was antifa.
The only criterion is: are billionaires into it, or does it threaten them?
Looks like Zuck is all in and has no choice but to support evil, because if/when the evil collapses, so does Zuck. Must be stressful for him as history has shown that this behaviour eventually catches up to them. Sadly, some make it too old age and run entire countries before it catches up which causes a lot of unnecessary suffering.
social media has been twisting itself to protect conservatives and right wing political terrorism since damn near the beginning.
Its where their bread and butter are. Right wing idiots following right wing demagogues spouting right wing bullshit are the ones that dont run adblockers, that click all the ads (Especially if its for merchandise for their chosen political team), and generate disproportionate amounts of money.
Agree. The dumb people out of necessity need to be in groups and those groups are lead by narcissists/ psychopaths / sociopaths who then weaponize the groups ignorance to exploit them for their own gain while using shame and worse to keep the group inline. It leads to the world being led by the wrong people and while we have managed fairly well by most metrics, it is an absolute thorn in the side of humanity that carries existential risks. I sure hope we can change things so that the smartest, kindest people lead instead. Maybe as the power of the group is certainly being eroded in part due to AI allowing smart individuals to climb quietly higher into leadership roles that are not forceful but rather truly leading. We will see. I am hopeful change is coming or we end up destroying everything. Seems like it is on a knife’s edge and has been since we invented nukes.
He is a Roman history buff, he should know better than to chain himself to an empire in freefall.
Dunning Kruger Effect is strong in Zuck.
It’s not in freefall, it’s thriving.
Were past the point of no return. I’m not holding my breath on the midterm results.
It is for the Billionaire class but not everyone else. Would you not agree?
That’s exactly what I’m referring to
As a self proclaimed leftist who has been to many protests, I have never once heard anyone say the word Antifa except for my Maga boss when he thought Antifa was going to come and rob his house after the BLM protests…
