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Facebook Censoring the Racket Report on Censorship?

A very Meta interpretation of "anti-disinformation"

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As one of our contributors points out, Meta is indeed very big on irony. It seems the social media giant has deemed an announcement about the Racket report on censorhip to be “hate speech.”

I try to keep perspective about incidents like this, given that smaller independent outlets deal with much more serious threats to their livelihood when they have content blocked or receive strikes on sites like YouTube. But in this case, a lot of people apart from myself have put in a lot of work on a report that wasn’t intended to be sensationalistic or needlessly provocative. It’s a scrupulously researched project that is intended to provide other journalists and researchers a starting point for investigations into this space.

I’ve put in a query to Facebook, but if this is how the algorithm responds to this kind of content, it says a lot about their algorithm.

Update: this issue has been resolved, with Facebook saying it was a “bug” fixed “quickly.” I appreciate the company responding to our query.


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Calling someone out on their censorship is hate speech.

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