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.
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.