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.
Fuck you Mark Cuckerberg.
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…
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…
Is “Pro-Constitution” and “Anti-Tyranny” gonna be on a list of banned words?
No no officer I didn’t say antifa. I said I was a fashopp (Fascism Opponent)
Anybody taking bets on what the “unalive” equivalent of antifacist is going to be?
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.
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.
That’s really not true. I’ve seen the term antifa (standing for anti-fascism) used plenty for many decades now.
We’ve had antifa spray tags in my school’s walls.
It may seems obscure to some parts of the world but for those of us who suffered under fascism multiple times (south Europe) it’s a very familiar phrase from a long time before trump become president.
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.
I’m right here. Your dear Aunt Tifa.
Antifa is as old as fascism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-fascism
Yes, Anti-fascism is old.
My point is that the specific word “Antifa” has only been used since 2016 in the US.
Definetly used world wide at least since the 80s and yes basically meaning anti fascist.
yes, but it wasn’t being weaponised as a brand, is what they’re getting at, until 2016. Before that it wasn’t being used like a cudgel.
I really hope enough people know this.
Maybe Iran will put out a Lego video explaining it.
“Iran, if you’re listening…”
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!
The only criterion is: are billionaires into it, or does it threaten them?
So this basically means they are proud to be “Fascist” then.
If you are Anti-Antifa you are Fa.
All tech bro are proud of it
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
delete. facebook.
why are we still using it in 2026 again?
Marketplace killed our local Craigslist. So thats why I occasionally click in. I still check out craigslist for the nothing thats posted there.
You’re part of the problem.
yeah, that’s a consequence of not deleting facebook for years. it encroaches.
tl;dr this new policy is dumb and bad. References to specific things like Antifa make no logical sense as a grounds for censorship, because there were already reasonable rules in place to handle actual problems.
In some cases, the content that Meta considers a threat signal is commonsensical. If, for instance, a user mentions bringing a weapon to an event, the company flags it as a threat signal. But in other cases, Meta’s process for identifying threat signals is more vague. Under the new rules, Meta might trigger a threat signal when a user posts a “visual depiction of a weapon,” a “reference to arson, theft, or vandalism,” or “military language,” if accompanied by the word “antifa.”
If “antifa” is mentioned in the context of “references to historical or recent incidents of violence” — a category so sprawling that it includes “historic wars” and “battles” — that post will also be penalized. Should Meta apply this rule as written, the company could, for instance, restrict posts comparing the antifascist nature of World War II to the contemporary antifa movement.
It’s difficult to believe any intellectual discussion would happen on Facebook, but this rule further cements the suppression of it.
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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.
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”!
I don’t need more proof.
“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.” George Carlin
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
A lot of folks in Ireland have an Aunt Aoife.
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