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.
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!
The only criterion is: are billionaires into it, or does it threaten them?
Here’s everybody’s reminder that every WWII vet (at least from the Allied forces) was antifa.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
This thread is specifically about “QAnon and Antifa content" and if Meta “had discussed its antifa speech rules with the Trump administration.”
Yes, the world is more than the US, but we are discussing censorship in the US so the labeling of any dissenting opinion as Antifa is a trick specific to the Trump administration.
Highlighting that the Google Trends for this term in the US only becomes relevant after 2016 is highly relevant.
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’m right here. Your dear Aunt Tifa.
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.
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.
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You sound ridiculous
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.
Definetly used world wide at least since the 80s and yes basically meaning anti fascist.
Try 1930 Germany
I’m specifically talking about the US and the word “Antifa”.
My point is that the specific word “Antifa” has only been used since 2016 in the US.
Factually wrong.
If you truly think that terms only exist when they show up as statistically relevant on Google trends then you’re beyond saving, I’m sorry.
Antifa as only been common language in the US since 2016. Fact.
You cannot be pro Democracy without being Antifa. If you do not support fascism, you are antifa.
So, anti fascism is not allowed in USA? Understandable, it want not allowed in Italy 1922-1943 nor in Germany 1933-1945.
So this basically means they are proud to be “Fascist” then.
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?
That’s exactly what I’m referring to
I can’t believe anybody uses products from this company anymore.
I stopped using all Meta in 2020 and miss none of it, except I still have my fb account solely to keep in touch with one of my aunts and use Marketplace. It sucks that Marketplace has replaced good ol Craigslist but it has…
God I miss not having to sign up for massive tracking to buy someone’s old tools
This is why Facebook is banned in China and should be in any civilized country. It’s nothing but an extension of US soft power and its fascist imperialist tentacles.
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Marketplace killed our local Craigslist. So thats why I occasionally click in. I still check out craigslist for the nothing thats posted there.
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So the bots and borderline mentally handicapped senior citizens that use Facebook can no longer say “antifa”.
Whatever.
I have a Facebook account with a fake name so I can peruse Marketplace. The shit that it tried to get me view is literally insane. A outrage inducing AI post that’s clearly fake with thousands of comments littered with spelling errors that are barely even readable. Facebook makes me realize how Trump was elected. People are very very very stupid. Go see for yourself. You won’t believe your eyes.
I don’t need more proof.
There are a lot of angry, religiously brainwashed, abused, hurting, failed by the education system, willfully ignorant, racist, sexist, authoritarian, bandwagoning, sociopathic, narcissistic, confused, regressed, selfish people out there. That’s why I don’t think we’ll fix our country without first fixing our relationships with our neighbors. Getting Grandma Geraldine to log off Facebook and touch grass is probably a good thing. But can we wake everyone up to the technofascist plan in time? I think we’re very close to finding out and it makes me uncomfortable.
All the sheeple say “baaaaahhhh”!
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
No no officer I didn’t say antifa. I said I was a fashopp (Fascism Opponent)
I think the word is mostly used by the far right anyways
Ok, we can write anti-fascist…it’s just a tiny bit more verbose…
…right?
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A lot of folks in Ireland have an Aunt Aoife.
You should never use the term antifa, ever.
It’s a right-wing scare term, don’t help them by spreading the meme.
You don’t need a term for anti-fascist, just like you don’t need a term for anti-murderer or anti-slaver. It’s the default state for any sane person who isn’t under the influence of the fascist population.
sure, but two questions:
How do you position yourself when the default opposition is fascist (there is no official left party in parliament eg Hungary, US)?
Who are all the dudes in “antifa” online spaces, is it all just a CIA honeypot or are they just kiddies?
You can be anti-fascist and call yourself as such (though, I’d argue that everyone is anti-fascist by default). Just don’t use ‘antifa’
The term ‘antifa’ specifically is a right-wing meme that’s being intentionally loaded with a bunch of negative connotations. This meme exists to support scaring the labor class voters away from the left, dividing the class against itself and to attack the monied elites who support left-wing causes by using the legal apparatuses that were created post-9/11 to target ‘terrorism’.
By accepting and propagating that term you’re helping the right to apply their memetically poisoned label to their enemies.
We have a whole generation of Americans who suffered and died fighting fascism. We call them the Greatest Generation. Patriots, heroes, and veterans… not antifa.
Think of ‘antifa’ like ‘woke’ and ‘DEI’. They create these terms and load them down with a bunch of connotations so people can be bigoted or fascists without having to confront that fact. There is no antifa.
