Has anyone else noticed that Facebook allows racist content to stand?

[Anon778833]

If you report stuff, they say it doesn’t break guidelines. But I’m pretty sure it wouldn’t stand on most forums.

Yes. They've always been appalling. They put the onus on you to block the person rather than not allowing it to displayed in the first place. It's disgusting.

They review and if appropriate take down something like 90% all reported content with 24hours and 97% within 48hours.

If you see something you don't like report it 🤷‍♀️

I've reported many racist and xenophobic things Sushiroller and my experience is they are rarely taken down by FB.

Yeah. A lot of it is really blatant and it doesn't get taken down if you report it.

It's why I deleted FB some years ago and why big companies are boycotting them recently.

Shame I'm not on there. I would take great pleasure in posting/blocking my racist sister in law and her "White Lives Matter" bs. It seemed a bit petty to rejoin just to do that, but it was tempting.

Yep. I’ve reported something before that contained a hugely, in your face, blatant racial name.
Facebook deemed it fine, as the content wasn’t citing hate. It just had a highly offensive word in it.
I was dumbfounded

Not just racism, several things I've reported that clearly break guidelines but they just come back and say that it doesn't. I'm not sure they even look at it.

I was really pleased to see though that they are now putting up false news warnings on some content and explaining how it has been fact checked.

Of course no one else but you has noticed this

It's not like there has been a very well publicised campaign going for the last month to get advertisers to drop FB

Of course no one else but you has noticed this

It's not like there has been a very well publicised campaign going for the last month to get advertisers to drop FB

There are a lot of posts that clearly are racist. And offensive in other ways too. It’s disgusting that they’re allowed to stand. I had thought that they had pledged to do more about this sort of thing?

The latest one today I’ve seen is someone saying that asylum seekers are murderers and there should be a campaign for white lives. Facebook have left it up. I unfriended the racist.

@ttim985y

Not just racism, several things I've reported that clearly break guidelines but they just come back and say that it doesn't. I'm not sure they even look at it.

I was really pleased to see though that they are now putting up false news warnings on some content and explaining how it has been fact checked.

Yep, I reported someone who was calling themselves Argos-Returns and linking to a dodgy website that promised flatscreen TVs to those who gave personal details. An obvious scam.

According to the response it didn't breech their guidelines.

I've reported fake news, racists and sexists and nothing has been taken down.

This just gives the impression that facebook does not give a flying fuck. Hopefully the advertising boycott will force them to make changes.

@Sushiroller

They review and if appropriate take down something like 90% all reported content with 24hours and 97% within 48hours.

If you see something you don't like report it 🤷‍♀️

I report loads of stuff that breaks their guidelines (I read them every time to make sure) and I don't remember a single occasion they have actually removed it.

A lot of the time they don't review it at all, or if they do it takes a lot longer than 48 hours. So I think these figures are fudged somehow.

Another thing I don’t like is extreme and upsetting images related to child neglect or animal abuse / neglect. Slightly different thing but I don’t like seeing that it’s horrible.

Facebook is now the safe haven for conservative/right wing/Republican views and people. I don't think Zuckerberg cares one bit as long as he makes money.

This is a good read:

www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/06/how-facebook-became-the-social-media-home-of-the-right

@knittingaddict hmm, interesting.

Yep I reported a comment that referred to George Floyd as filth who got what was coming to him and they said it didn't breach the guidelines.

I can’t believe it @Oysterbabe I’m so shocked. If people are campaigning for change then that won’t happen whilst a big platform like FB is an overt enabler of racism.