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Jack Yan (甄爵恩) boosted
Miguel Afonso Caetano
@[email protected]

"As many sex workers and educators have told us over the years, while Facebook gave us the chance to appeal all of these decisions, trying to correct Facebook’s moderation efforts is not simple, and the “appeals” process consists solely of clicking a few predetermined boxes; there is no chance to interact with a moderator or plead your case. We appealed three of the decisions in late October, none of which were accepted.

The appeal we filed on Ada Ada Ada’s story on the official 404 Media page in mid-December was accepted within a few hours and got the restrictions lifted off of the 404 Media page (and Jason’s personal account) in mid-December. But an appeal Jason filed on his Threads post about the same story was not accepted: “We reviewed your post again. We confirmed that it does not follow our Community Guidelines on nudity or sexual activity,” the appeal determination on Jason’s Threads post read. The different determinations between what was essentially the exact same post shows how all-over-the-place Meta’s moderation remains, which creates an infuriating dynamic for adult content creators. Mark Zuckerberg has personally expressed regret for giving into pressure from the Biden administration to “censor” content during the height of the coronavirus pandemic, but neither he nor Meta has extended an apology to adult content creators who are censored regularly.

It was hard enough to deal with having to constantly prove to Facebook that our journalism is not pornography or harmful content when we worked at VICE, where we had a whole audience and social media team who dealt with this kind of thing. It’s much harder for us to do that now that we’re an independent publication with only four workers who have to do this in addition to everything else."

https://www.404media.co/facebook-is-censoring-404-media-stories-about-facebooks-censorship/

#SocialMedia #Facebook #Meta #Censorship #ContentModeration

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