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!
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.
I really hope enough people know this.
Maybe Iran will put out a Lego video explaining it.
“Iran, if you’re listening…”
No anti-fascist calls themselves antifa
Maybe in murica, but not in Germany
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.
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.
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.
Idiot
You sound ridiculous
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…
The right love their bogeymen.
Gotta have an other to point at.
I for one am a proud member of ITSWA (international t-shirt wearer association)
You cannot be pro Democracy without being Antifa. If you do not support fascism, you are antifa.
Anti Antifa = Fa
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…
So this basically means they are proud to be “Fascist” then.
If you are Anti-Antifa you are Fa.
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
Fuck you Mark Cuckerberg.
Mark’s a real Fucker-berg.
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
And netynahu is Hitler
No no officer I didn’t say antifa. I said I was a fashopp (Fascism Opponent)
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.
“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.” George Carlin
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”!
Antifa antifa antifa antifa antifa oh damn looks like lemmy is not yet ruled by pedophiles
Ok, we can write anti-fascist…it’s just a tiny bit more verbose…
…right?
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.
Aunt Teepha
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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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You’re part of the problem.
