Reporting on Muslim Persecution of Christians Offends FB
Nov 5, 2021 23:36:52 GMT -5
Post by maybetoday on Nov 5, 2021 23:36:52 GMT -5
November 5, 2021
Reporting on Muslim Persecution of Christians Offends Facebook's 'Standards'
By Raymond Ibrahim
Apparently, reporting on the horrific persecution Christian minorities experience in the Muslim world is a punishable offense for Facebook, as that topic falls beneath the social media giant's "standards."
That's what I was told when I logged onto my Facebook account a few days ago. A box popped up saying, "This post goes against our Community Standards," followed by, "Only you can see this post because it goes against our community standards," with a link to the offensive post in question. I was then locked out for 24 hours.
The problematic article in question, which I published online and shared on Facebook back on Feb. 15, 2021 — a full eight months ago — is titled "New Film Commemorates 21 Coptic Christian Martyrs." In it, I discussed how an Arabic-language film was being made about the 21 Egyptian Christians savagely slaughtered by the Islamic State in Libya in 2015.
To be sure, I'm familiar with and a regular recipient of Facebook's other tactics — especially "shadowbanning": making my posts appear live on my end, though no one or only a few see them. (I know this only because I've gotten so many messages over the years from Facebook users saying, "How come you haven't posted anything in months?" even though I upload some three or four posts every week. Others regularly message me saying things like, "Facebook has disconnected the 'Share' button on the top menu of your page" (from a 10/27/21 message).
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Reporting on Muslim Persecution of Christians Offends Facebook's 'Standards'
By Raymond Ibrahim
Apparently, reporting on the horrific persecution Christian minorities experience in the Muslim world is a punishable offense for Facebook, as that topic falls beneath the social media giant's "standards."
That's what I was told when I logged onto my Facebook account a few days ago. A box popped up saying, "This post goes against our Community Standards," followed by, "Only you can see this post because it goes against our community standards," with a link to the offensive post in question. I was then locked out for 24 hours.
The problematic article in question, which I published online and shared on Facebook back on Feb. 15, 2021 — a full eight months ago — is titled "New Film Commemorates 21 Coptic Christian Martyrs." In it, I discussed how an Arabic-language film was being made about the 21 Egyptian Christians savagely slaughtered by the Islamic State in Libya in 2015.
To be sure, I'm familiar with and a regular recipient of Facebook's other tactics — especially "shadowbanning": making my posts appear live on my end, though no one or only a few see them. (I know this only because I've gotten so many messages over the years from Facebook users saying, "How come you haven't posted anything in months?" even though I upload some three or four posts every week. Others regularly message me saying things like, "Facebook has disconnected the 'Share' button on the top menu of your page" (from a 10/27/21 message).
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