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.
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…
Archive link, no BS scripts
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
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.
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?
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…
Fuck you Mark Cuckerberg.
Mark’s a real Fucker-berg.
No anti-fascist calls themselves antifa and being anti-fascist is the default state of being for every single person who is not a fascist.
‘Antifa’ is a fabricated scare term prompted by the right-wing elite’s media influence campaign. It exists as a term in order to imply that there is some actual secret organization which can be presented as the boogey man to scare working-class people and/or to label as a terrorist organization so the elites in power can use the power of law enforcement to attack and jail their monied political opponents by claiming their association with or funding of a ‘known domestic terror group’.
Anything saying ‘antifa’ on social media is either intentional propaganda or the ignorant masses propagating those same memes.
You need to read Antifa, a manual written by Mark Bray. You will be surprised with history. The real propaganda was the billionaire media that biased your opinion. No offense (unless you really skip skimming through the easily found online epub, in which case you’d be denying yourself the chance to grow and hence lose any respect I had for the human being you are ;)
Please learn some history
We’re not living in history, we’re living in current events.
In the year of our Lord 2026, on Facebook, ‘antifa’ is a term coopted by the right as I’ve outlined above.
You sound ridiculous
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Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it. When the right tries to keyword hack you, don’t play into their game by accepting it as state of things. Antifa means being against fascism, simple as. And we all should be antifa.
That’s really not true. I’ve seen the term antifa (standing for anti-fascism) used plenty for many decades now.
We’ve had antifa spray tags in my school’s walls.
It may seems obscure to some parts of the world but for those of us who suffered under fascism multiple times (south Europe) it’s a very familiar phrase from a long time before trump become president.
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I’ve seen the term antifa (standing for anti-fascism) used plenty for many decades now.
Oh excuse me for not assuming every single person online is an american citizen.
IDGAF. The world is more than the US and americans need to wake up and realize this one day. They are not perfect and neither is anyone else, we’re a bunch of imperfect idiots trying to share a rock in space. And this requires empathy.
In the US though he’s absolutely correct. It’s just not a term anyone but MAGAts use. This rule really is only gonna censor the people trying to fear monger, and not any actual “antifa members” because they don’t exist.
not any actual “antifa members” because they don’t exist.
Well, I guess that explains how easy it was to establish fascism in the US.
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Imagine seeing everything happening in the last year and still advocating for censorship jfc.
I’m not even a hardcore leftist by European standards and sometimes the mentality over there just buffles me.
No anti-fascist calls themselves antifa
Maybe in murica, but not in Germany
Antifa is, as far as I know, the US abbreviation for Anti Fascist Action. This was an organization founded in the eighties in the UK with decentralized local chapters with the ability to mobilize. They were out in the streets violently confronting the fascists. It died out in the late nineties
Copy cat groupings had started appearing in other European countries by that time. In Sweden, we called them AFA. The antifa logo I’ve seen in US media is the logo of Anti Fascist Action. But that’s just my understanding.
“Antifascist Action” was first used by the Communist Party of Germany during the Weimar years (As “Antifaschistische Aktion”). It was a united front to oppose the Nazis rise and materially fight back against the brown shirts and their allies. It’s also where we get the common logo associated with antifascism today
I think the term antifa was originally just that- short for anti fascist. But it got hijacked and slandered and labeled teroor org. By entities that felt encouraged to do that.
But you’re definitely right. Being an anti fascist is a default state of human being.
I really hope enough people know this.
Maybe Iran will put out a Lego video explaining it.
“Iran, if you’re listening…”
I’m right here. Your dear Aunt Tifa.
Antifa is as old as fascism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-fascism
Yes, Anti-fascism is old.
My point is that the specific word “Antifa” has only been used since 2016 in the US.
My point is that the specific word “Antifa” has only been used since 2016 in the US.
Factually wrong.
Try 1930 Germany
I’m specifically talking about the US and the word “Antifa”.
Definetly used world wide at least since the 80s and yes basically meaning anti fascist.
yes, but it wasn’t being weaponised as a brand, is what they’re getting at, until 2016. Before that it wasn’t being used like a cudgel.
Then they should have written that, instead of “Antifa only existed after Trump won”.
Look at the Google Trends link. The word Antifa wasn’t commonly used in the US before 2016
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?
So this basically means they are proud to be “Fascist” then.
If you are Anti-Antifa you are Fa.
All tech bro are proud of it
Is “Pro-Constitution” and “Anti-Tyranny” gonna be on a list of banned words?
i can’t see why the first one would be. antifascists, most of whom are anarchists or communists
(or anarcho-communists)tend to really not be fans of the constitutionthe second one, maybe? but it would probably be worded “anti-authoritarian” if i had to guess since that phrase is used more
tl;dr this new policy is dumb and bad. References to specific things like Antifa make no logical sense as a grounds for censorship, because there were already reasonable rules in place to handle actual problems.
In some cases, the content that Meta considers a threat signal is commonsensical. If, for instance, a user mentions bringing a weapon to an event, the company flags it as a threat signal. But in other cases, Meta’s process for identifying threat signals is more vague. Under the new rules, Meta might trigger a threat signal when a user posts a “visual depiction of a weapon,” a “reference to arson, theft, or vandalism,” or “military language,” if accompanied by the word “antifa.”
If “antifa” is mentioned in the context of “references to historical or recent incidents of violence” — a category so sprawling that it includes “historic wars” and “battles” — that post will also be penalized. Should Meta apply this rule as written, the company could, for instance, restrict posts comparing the antifascist nature of World War II to the contemporary antifa movement.
It’s difficult to believe any intellectual discussion would happen on Facebook, but this rule further cements the suppression of it.
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No no officer I didn’t say antifa. I said I was a fashopp (Fascism Opponent)
