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The more and more racist comments are being allowed to stand on FB

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JimandPam · 19/02/2025 10:40

I am still a pretty frequent user of FB and find it useful for keeping in touch with overseas family and also part of hobby groups/kids days out ideas etc

I've always been a part of my local community Facebook and whilst most of the time comments/posts are in good faith, I've noticed more and more vile posts that are either racist or homophobic. I always report them using the appropriate tools

However, over the last 6 months I've noticed these comments are allowed to stand and I don't understand why

Two recent examples:
A community post about bad driving in a notorious spot in our town. I reported two comments

  1. X Town used to be nice before all of Africa moved in
  2. Never had this problem when they used to be on jam jars

After taking 30 days to review I've been told that neither of these comments break their community guidelines. What?? I've reopened them and added comments but I'm finding this more and more that my reporting is not being upheld

I know the simple answer is to use FB less but I'm seeing this all over SM where hateful comments are reported but not taken down.

AIBU to think the above should have simply been removed on reporting them or am I going mad?

OP posts:
MidnightPatrol · 19/02/2025 10:58

Twitter is crazy now.

Open racism (in all directions), sexism, conspiracy theories, extreme violence and sexual content.

Really awful.

Someone needs to set up a social media network for exclusively positive to neutral content.

ExtraOnions · 19/02/2025 10:56

Racism under the guise of “Free Speech” apparently we can all say what we want now, without any consequence.
Just tell a “free speech” racist you think (with no evidence) that’s he’s a sex offender - which they don’t like.
Then you tell them you are exercising your right to “free speech without consequence”
See how supportive they are of “free speech” then.

FedupMum2024 · 19/02/2025 10:51

Freedom of speech.

We are all entitled to an opinion.

ThatUniqueKoala · 19/02/2025 10:48

Tiktok is the same, I reported a comment saying something along the lines of ethical cleansing should be brought back and I got a report back "no violation found". I actually reported it again under a different reason and again same response. Apparently that's not classed as hate speech, I can't remember the other report topic I chose

But then I commented on a video calling someone stupid and my comment got removed for breaking community guidelines.

It's ridiculous.

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