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A far more accurate headline for this would be
"Black 'activists' post racist smears and slurs against white people on Facebook, get flagged and taken down, cry racism and invent new smears and slurs to avoid the algorithms"


https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/facebook-while-black-users-call-it-getting-zucked-say-talking-about-racism-is-censored-as-hate-speech/ar-BBWf46n?ocid=spartandhp

by Jessica Guynn
April 23, 2019

"White men are so fragile," she fired off, sharing William's post with her friends, "and the mere presence of a black person challenges every single thing in them."
It took just 15 minutes for Facebook to delete her post for violating its community standards for hate speech. And she was warned if she posted it again, she'd be banned for 72 hours.
Wysinger glared at her phone, but wasn't surprised. She says black people can't talk about racism on Facebook without risking having their posts removed and being locked out of their accounts in a punishment commonly referred to as "Facebook jail." For Wysinger, the Neeson post was just another example of Facebook arbitrarily deciding that talking about racism is racist.
"It is exhausting," she says, "and it drains you emotionally."
Black activists say hate speech policies and content moderation systems formulated by a company built by and dominated by white men fail the very people Facebook claims it's trying to protect. Not only are the voices of marginalized groups disproportionately stifled, Facebook rarely takes action on repeated reports of racial slurs, violent threats and harassment campaigns targeting black users, they say.
Many of these users now think twice before posting updates on Facebook or they limit how widely their posts are shared. Yet few can afford to leave the single-largest and most powerful social media platform for sharing information and creating community.
So to avoid being flagged, they use digital slang such as "wypipo," emojis or hashtags to elude Facebook's computer algorithms and content moderators. They operate under aliases and maintain back-up accounts to avoid losing content and access to their community. And they've developed a buddy system to alert friends and followers when a fellow black activist has been sent to Facebook jail, sharing the news of the suspension and the posts that put them there.
They call it getting "Zucked" and black activists say these bans have serious repercussions, not just cutting people off from their friends and family for hours, days or weeks at a time, but often from the Facebook pages they operate for their small businesses and nonprofits.
A couple of weeks ago, Black Lives Matter organizer Tanya Faison had one of her posts removed as hate speech. "Dear white people," she wrote in the post, "it is not my job to educate you or to donate my emotional labor to make sure you are informed. If you take advantage of that time and labor, you will definitely get the elbow when I see you."
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Glad FB is cracking down on that passive-aggressive crybully crap. Sitting around projecting and baiting and then claiming oppression and racism at the inevitable response should have consequences.

Blacks don't realize how weak they look doing that, nor how dishonest and devious. I get tired of all these little groups jostling for position and dominance in the liberal caste system.

Just be a damn American already.
The Republic is lost.

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Lady GAGA; Social Media is the toilet of the internet.

Social Media serves "Outage Culture" and "Call Out Culture" and mostly infanile behaviors.

Social Media has been the tool of choice, for young people as they fail to mature normally.

Why bother to work to have and keep a group of friends? Since you can jump on the web, and jump into a relationship within seconds.

People comment on Youtube music videos. They tend to be young, ignorant.

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