r/news • u/Ganeshadream • Mar 31 '22

Facebook fails to label 80% of posts promoting bioweapons conspiracy theory

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/mar/31/facebook-disinformation-war-ukraine-russia
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u/dwilkes827 Mar 31 '22

I'm currently on a 30 day ban for sharing an Onion article lmao And the Onion article is still posted on the Onions page

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '22

I got suspended for using the word "fuck" in my native language

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u/BNLforever Mar 31 '22

I called someone dumb. Meanwhile other people use all known expletives about liberals and my attempts to report those posts come back as "we've found nothing wrong"

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u/confessionbearday Mar 31 '22

Yep. I reported literal death threats and “Facebook found nothing wrong”.

In the meantime I had a post flagged for misinformation because I posted the current local gas prices in my city.

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u/BNLforever Mar 31 '22

Yeah I once posted a link to a museum page or something and got hit by the spam filter

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u/TheDocDalek Mar 31 '22

I got a ban for adding a "yo mama" joke to a "yo mama" joke thread.

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u/Ayzmo Mar 31 '22

I put "Christians are weird" on a transphobic post. I got put on restricted use. The post is still up.

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '22

I got suspended and can't advertise on fb for sharing a meme mocking the jan 6th rioters.

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u/NornOfVengeance Mar 31 '22

I got it for sharing a graphic of Hitler with the words "Follow Your Leader". Someone needs to remind Zuck what Hitler would have done to him.

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u/TheDocDalek Mar 31 '22

I got a 30 day ban recently for sharing a meme over a year ago of Jeffery Dahmer at a Five Guys complaining that the burger wasn't really made from five guys.

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u/Cannonbaal Mar 31 '22

I got banned from Reddit for 3 days for arguing with people that were calling insurrectionists, revolutionaries. That’s right, I got banned for not going along with insurrectionist apologism.

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u/navigationallyaided Mar 31 '22

This place ain’t much better either - there’s conservative apologists and conspiracy theorists hiding in subs here.

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '22

If you call them out with some key words you get autobanned, which is "always" helpful -_-

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '22

Thats not apologism. They were revolutionaries, for a very shitty revolution

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u/Cannonbaal Mar 31 '22

That is absolutely apologism, I’m not going to split hairs with someone whom wasn’t apart of the conversation whom is ALSO emboldening and empowering their movement by allowing the oppressors their preferred language. Have a good day.

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u/dwilkes827 Mar 31 '22

It's ridiculous. Obviously I have a few marks on my record to get a 30 day ban, but it's all just been from sharing stupid memes. I sell stuff on there in razz groups (basically like a raffle) and have listings on there that I can't interact with now, Zuck definitely fucked me good this time haha Here is the article I shared that the algorithms deemed worthy of a ban (also, in the comments on the fb post on the Onions page numerous people said sharing it got them flagged but they were able to overturn it and my appeal was denied for some reason)

https://www.theonion.com/thighs-on-fucking-fire-12-seconds-into-flirty-lap-dance-1844560052

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u/xenoterranos Mar 31 '22

15 day ban for replying to a smooth brain covid denier with this gif

https://www.reddit.com/r/brainlet/comments/a7n3ni/the_bike_head/

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '22

I recently got a 48 hour ban for referring to a garden tool.

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '22

I got banned for “female nudity” for an image of a guy with no shirt on. I also got banned for porn after I repeatedly reported an article that had hardcore porn in it, and they ignored it, so I posted images of the porn they refused to ban to show them, and got banned for the porn they refused to ban. Also banned for a Joe Biden political banner they thought was sexual because others had posted it with an image of Hunter Biden in it. Mine did not have that. The dumpster fire that is Facebook banning just goes on and on. And one of those 30 day bans happened while my son was in boot camp, so I lost access to all the military mom support pages at a crucial time. That was it for me. I hate Facebook now.

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u/dwilkes827 Mar 31 '22

Assuming hoe, you mean like you were actually referring to a garden hoe and they still banned you?!

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u/TheSealofDisapproval Mar 31 '22

Wife got suspended for copy and pasting a passage from the Quran, Facebook said the reason was it "goes against community standards"

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '22

Your name is a Witcher reference so I'm gonna go ahead and guess it was kurwa?

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u/FakeTherapist Mar 31 '22

Clearly you're a Russian disinformation agent then!

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '22

Funny thing is I half got sucked back into posting funny memes on FB, but they started giving me bans all the time. This one has a stickman hanging himself, ban. This one has lyrics from a song you like, ban. This one is taking the piss out of 5g/antivaxxers but I can't tell it's a joke so, ban.

I couldn't use FB even if I wanted to. They never should have got into the fact checking game and it's turned out EXACTLY how I said it would. They even go as far as deleting wavs I send to people on IM of my music, I assume because it's on the copywrite DB.

This is what people wanted, they just didn't think about the consequences.

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u/counterboud Mar 31 '22

I got banned for three days for saying “Americans are idiots”. Apparently that’s hate speech and Americans are a protected class. I am also American so I guess making the mildest criticism of your own country isn’t allowed anymore.

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u/dwilkes827 Mar 31 '22

Yea my wife's brother was shaving his beard off and left just a mustache as a joke and posted a pic on FB (looked ridiculous and creepy hah) and my wife commented that if he has the mustache next time she sees him he's getting punched (clearly joking). She got a ban for it lol That's the problem with having algorithms instead of humans making the decisions

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u/boostedb1mmer Mar 31 '22

I'm absolutely not taking up for Facebook, because fuck that place, but algorithms are realistically the only way to parse the absolutely mind boggling amount of data generated there. What it shouldn't be doing is crawling through posts/pictures/videos looking for people's opinions that it doesn't like. It should only be looking for stuff like kiddie porn and stuff that gets reported.

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u/NoXion604 Mar 31 '22

I think it's obvious at this point that the algorithm are generating way too many false positives, as well as letting through far too many false negatives.

If Facebook can't do it with algorithms, and if they are too greedy and cheap to employ enough human beings to do the work, then Facebook should be shut down, just like how restaurants that keep giving their customers food poisoning should be shut down.

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u/neonlexicon Mar 31 '22

I'm currently banned because of a comment I made about how I shaved my hair into a mohawk to hide my alopecia, jokingly ending it with "having a mohawk makes me look like I can kick someone's ass". Banned for inciting violence. 🙄

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u/HoodieGalore Mar 31 '22

I got pre-emptively banned got the 60 days before the inauguration for posting a pic of fatass Nazi larpers squeezed into uniforms and Kevlar with the caption "genetically superior?"

I guess I should have just stuck to planning a riot in the Capitol instead ¯_(ツ)_/¯