Reporting on Muslim Persecution of Christians Offends Facebook's 'Standards'

American Thinker ^ | 5 Nov, 2021 | Raymond Ibrahim

[MtnClimber]

Another reminder of why an alternative social media platform is needed.

Apparently, reporting on the horrific persecution Christian minorities experience in the Muslim word is a punishable offense for Facebook, as that topic falls beneath the social media giant's "standards."

That's what I was told when I logged onto my Facebook account a few days ago. A box popped up saying, "This post goes against our Community Standards," followed by, "Only you can see this post because it goes against our community standards," with a link to the offensive post in question. I was then locked out for 24 hours.

The problematic article in question, which I published online and shared on Facebook back on Feb. 15, 2021 — a full eight months ago — is titled "New Film Commemorates 21 Coptic Christian Martyrs." In it, I discussed how an Arabic-language film was being made about the 21 Egyptian Christians savagely slaughtered by the Islamic State in Libya in 2015.

To be sure, I'm familiar with and a regular recipient of Facebook's other tactics — especially "shadowbanning": making my posts appear live on my end, though no one or only a few see them. (I know this only because I've gotten so many messages over the years from Facebook users saying, "How come you haven't posted anything in months?" even though I upload some three or four posts every week. Others regularly message me saying things like, "Facebook has disconnected the 'Share' button on the top menu of your page" (from a 10/27/21 message).

So what is it about that particular article that — eight months after it was first shared on Facebook — caused it to be banned and me punished? If it's the accompanying picture, which in my opinion is hardly that graphic,

[MtnClimber]

The left instinctively sides with evil.

[Adder]

I was then locked out for 24 hours....

Why the hell are you on FB at all???

Miss your high school buds?

[gundog]

Ping

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***I was then locked out for 24 hours. ***

Don’t feel like the Lone Ranger. I am on my 4th Facebook 30 day suspension for 2021. That is one third of this year of being unable to post or comment for the silliest of reasons.

[SkyDancer]

'How to pick up Jewish chicks':

Vile antisemitic picture shows human remains on a shovel - but Facebook refused to remove it

Facebook has been accused of "enabling vicious Jewish hatred" after telling users an image depicting human remains on a shovel below the tag line "How to pick up Jewish chicks" did not breach its standards.

Just days after back flipping on its decision to censor an iconic Vietnam War photo of a naked girl escaping a napalm bombing, the social media giant is again under fire over its handling of posts reported as offensive.

In reply to complaints about the shovel image - which was widely shared, "liked" 21,000 times, and received more than 37,000 comments - Facebook said: "We reviewed the post you reported for displaying hate speech and found it doesn't violate our community standards."

Under its community standards policy, Facebook says it "removes hate speech" that attacks people based on their race, ethnicity, national origin and religious affiliation.

"We allow humour, satire or social commentary related to these topics, and we believe that when people use their authentic identity, they are more responsible when they share this kind of commentary," the policy says.

The image was posted to a page attributed to a Queensland man late last month and shared 2280 times. It has now been removed but tens of thousands of comments, many of which are anti-Semitic, were still visible in the thread as late as Thursday.

A Facebook spokesman said the image was removed for breaching community standards and that the company was still investigating.

But 24 hours after being asked, the spokesman could still not say when the photo was taken down. Facebook could also not explain why only the photo was initially removed and not the entire thread - which is standard when a post is pulled.

[David Chase]

Very sick.

But it’s also a powerful example of Facebook’s hatred of Jews and Christians.

Glad you posted this but sad and bitter there was such a post.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Think of it like the Nazi “Aryan Laws”. Nit a thing to do with “fairness” and everything to do with favoring one race(s) at the expense of another or others. Ray Charles could see this. These should be referred to as Aryan Laws as words mean things and “community standards” is such a loathsome term.

[RinaseaofDs]

Do they report on the Uyghur holocaust in China? Just wondering.

[SkyDancer]

I hate and despise FB; they’re dead to me. From time to time I have to post that although I hate to do it, it needs to be remembered how sick some people are out there.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

They don’t post they’re a platform (Facebook). Not conceptually different than FR in that regard. It’s all about who and what gets banned. And to that question I don’t know since I don’t go there.

[upchuck]

Thanks for the ping gundog. Sorry I'm late.

This is the Farcebook Is Evil ping list.

h/t SC DOC

Facebook is a perfect example of socialism:
You get it for free but the quality sucks.
You have no say in how it works.
The guy who runs it gets rich.
There's no real competition.
You have no privacy.
And if you say one thing they don't like
they'll shut you up.

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[dsc]

“The left instinctively sides with evil.”

Why wouldn’t they? All leftist thought, from the limousine liberalism of a George Clooney to the murderous horrors of Mao, Stalin, and Pol Pot, is of and from Satan.

[dsc]

“iconic Vietnam War photo of a naked girl escaping a napalm bombing”

Apropos of nothing at all, we weren’t the ones who dropped the napalm, and that girl came to the US and had a great life.

[SkyDancer]

Right - but that shovel of ashes is representing cremated remains of some Jewish girls; I know about that iconic photo, she passed away not too long ago.

[dsc]

All I’m saying is that such cremated remains and the crimes that resulted in them are horrible beyond words, while that photo of the girl was used by the left to lie.

[SkyDancer]

Okay, I get your point.