Across the last two weeks more and more Social Justice activists have had content removed and have received temporary bans from Facebook lasting from 24 hours to 30 days. I'm sure you're wondering what they, well we, could have done to receive these temporary bans. Well, we spoke up against racism and used the words "white people." Apparently white people don't like being called white and Facebook is willing to help protect that level of white fragility.
It seemed as though it was a targeted attack since most of the people within my circle had in happening in babywearing groups. Because apparently talking about the racism we have experienced made them uncomfortable enough to want us silenced so they began reporting us. But, it has become clear that this is more wide spread since activist outside of those spaces are also being targeted.
The comments that have had us banned are tame in comparison (you can find examples of the comments here: Facebook Has a Problem and my algorithms don't see color) to the fact that many times actual slurs, hate speech, threats to kill are seen to be not violation of Community Standards. Yet, calling out racism is. This is very clearly a move to silence activists whether it is abuse of the algorithms that handle automated banning or if it is due Facebook upholding white supremacy and fragility.
We see you, Facebook. This is unacceptable.
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