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by Ahmed90 1934 days ago
It's an obvious "following the local law" thingy, Facebook doesn't give a s*t, I personally reported 3 posts on different FB pages

1st was a religion extremist guy who says to Iraqi people that they should protest and fight the "other side" of the religion (aka start a new civil war) instead of protesting against the corrupted government.

2nd was a post that was praising the guy who murdered the Danish (Or was he Norwegian?) teacher who mocked Islam, and calling him a hero.

and the 3rd was a post that says "Women education is satanic, women's purpose is marriage".

all of these 3 reports was "The post was reviewed, and though it doesn't go against one of our specific Community Standards" and then it explains how to block blablabla... I don't report things anymore lol

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I've given up during the time when ISIS regularly posted videos on social media. I've reported a video with a literal beheading about two thirds of the video in, and it didn't go against Facebook's community standards.

I guess whichever moderator saw it didn't bother to skip ahead during those like 5-10 seconds they reach their decision in.

They probably don't have the time. Next time report with timestamp?
There's no comment box, it's just a dropdown list. You can't pass them that sort of detail.

The moderators absolutely have my sympathy. The people who designed this system do not.

Yeah, I've reported a bunch of stuff, all of it egregious. I have an inbox full of "thank you but this does not violate our community standards" to show for it.
Facebook has so much power with censoring only one side of the extremists. A good experiment would be if you could find a Christian priest to report, and check whether their response is weighted differently.
A good experiment would be ...

That would be an anecdote just as Ahmed's findings were anecdotal. It you want to check for bias you need data.

Data that Facebook is fighting hard to make sure people can't collect. Just like how they were poisoning the well while suing academic teams just trying to get information on ads data.
Cambridge analytica killed any kind of large scale data access to FB.
Well, Facebook won't ever release their data, so I guess there cannot be any wrongdoing whatsoever.
Interestingly, I've had more success reporting on Instagram than Facebook...
Paty was French, where did you get Danish or Norwegian from?
Probably confused with the Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard
Idk, a brain fart I guess.