Facebook Censorship

The cluster discusses Facebook's content moderation practices, including censorship of hate speech, political content, violence incitement, and de-platforming, with debates on enforcement consistency, platform responsibilities, and comparisons to other sites.

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e.g ProPublica US WSJ OK TikTok PR TOS FB HN facebook content posts censoring bar platform speech censorship nationalism violence

Sample Comments

almost_usual β€’ Mar 12, 2019 β€’ View on HN

This would suggest Facebook supports censorship

krapp β€’ Jun 26, 2020 β€’ View on HN

Why shouldn't Facebook draw the line on their own platform?

rgrs β€’ Feb 4, 2020 β€’ View on HN

umm, what to do think about FB, Twitter's crackdown against hate speech?

corerius β€’ Aug 14, 2018 β€’ View on HN

I'm confused. I thought that Facebook was doing the censoring.

philippejara β€’ Oct 7, 2022 β€’ View on HN

why are you censoring facebook?

jauer β€’ Jul 2, 2019 β€’ View on HN

Facebook is a target of a lot more then dissent: https://fortune.com/2017/06/16/facebook-content-moderators-l...

neurobot123 β€’ Nov 23, 2021 β€’ View on HN

β€œFB nixed plan to censor speech they hate”

Zambyte β€’ Dec 1, 2023 β€’ View on HN

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_content_management_co...Yes that would be ideal. While we're at it, we should ban (or extremely limit) it here in the US too.Edit: also while searching for this I found several similar examples, but this is the one I was familiar with already

CaptainZapp β€’ May 26, 2019 β€’ View on HN

Like exactly what? You haven't qualified anything here. You just claimed I am wrong because of what? What adverts, what is happening? This is a very vague claim.Vague claim? Not at all.I was asking myself if I should actually bother to even answer, but then decided to invest a couple of minutes into some very basic DDG searches. You can find some results below.Let me assure you that there's a ton more, if you just bother to open your eyes.I close my argument here, si

ytNumbers β€’ Jun 4, 2020 β€’ View on HN

We are discussing Facebook censoring the POTUS.