I don’t think it’s just Israel. I think more countries (cough cough) are doing this. Why would they all show up on Inauguration Day? Yeah…

I have no proof, only suspicion. You can easily skirt “The Algorithm” using VPNs and get vastly different content.

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mandevil 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

From the article:

"Israel ranks 3rd in the most posts targeted by TDRs out of any country.

"On a per-capita basis, Israel ranks 1st in the most posts targeted by TDRs, and has 3 times more TDR targeted posts per-capita than the country with the 2nd most submissions.

"Its important to contextualize this with the fact that almost all governments reporting to Meta primarily censor citizens of their own countries. Israel is the exception as only 1.3% of its takedown requests are actually targeted towards Israeli’s (14th most targeted country).

"For reference, 63% of Malaysia TDRs target Malaysian content, and 95% of Brazil’s TDRs target Brazilian content"

(Back to me): They are saying that Israel is doing this at a huge scale and, very unusually, almost exclusively targeting people in other countries.

The leakers speculate that Israel is doing this at at scale that is poisoning Meta's ML filtering inputs, so that they are now, without direct Israeli involvement, Meta is carrying on their own censorship of other countries. Since Israel's active TDR's produced the vast bulk of recent terrorism related TDRs, the leakers think that almost all of the 38 million Facebook posts that were censored automatically by Facebook ML for terrorism reasons during the period since the Simchat Torah attacks were because of this poisoning, but here they are drawing more on inference than direct evidence.

I had not realized the scale of the program here, or that they were targeting external countries like this, so I (someone reasonably familiar with Facebook's moderation) learned something from reading this.

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reactordev 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

Exactly, this study was on antisemitism but you can imagine other countries doing this for other content.

By overloading the Meta ML loop, they’re guaranteeing that the censorship is from meta and not them.

Antisemitism, political posts, rallies, anti-government sentiment, it’s an assault on free speech. Add the fact that news organizations have basically bent the knee to this US Administration and it’s pretty much game over for free thinking journalism w/ access. (Good journalism doesn’t necessarily require red tape access)

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jhanschoo 4 days ago | parent [-]

Can you tell me what part of the article leads you to think that it is about antisemitism? Give me a few quotes.

	▲	reactordev 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		Sorry, what they perceive as antisemitism. Taking down of anything critical of their actions in Gaza, targeting Palestinians specifically. Speaking the truth isn’t antisemitism. However, that administration claims everything critical is antisemitism. The article was about takedown abuse by national actors. With a call out to a specific actor (and nods to the others). I used my power of deduction here. But it could very well be Israel asking to take down fuzzy cat videos. I very much support Israelites standing up and saying enough is enough. To hate. To violence. To Netanyahu. To Gaza. All of it. And Meta is happy to help organize (ugh)

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davidf18 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

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icw_nru 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Many many countries are doing this, which is shown in figure 5. However, no other country comes close to the amount of censorship done by Israel. Additionally, most countries primarily do internal censorship. Again, Israel is the only country that is censoring other countries to this great extent. And almost all of it is related to the ongoing events.

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wk_end 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

Why does Figure 5 only include those eight countries?

	▲	icw_nru 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		The report focused on the top 8 country governments who use the content enforcement system the most at Meta. The countries selected aren't random.

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ttemPumpinRary 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

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freedomben 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

Just some friendly advice, this sort of blurring of the lines between Jews and the government of Israel is not effective at changing minds. Obviously the two are not entirely separate and cannot be, but reasonable people can love Jewish people (or be Jewish themselves!) and criticize the government of Israel. Doing the latter doesn't negate the former. If you ever want to have a fruitful conversation with somebody, understanding this distinction is a pre-requisite

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pillefitz 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Well, Israel does manipulate the media, no need to come up with strawmen

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msgodel 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Not saying I agree with it but if it's true censored people who have concrete evidence it's happening probably are going to continuously shout it from the rooftops until they feel their neighbors are sufficiently aware.