<story><title>Facebook bans Holocaust film for violating race policy</title><url>https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/facebook-holocaust-film-race-policy-1234592908/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bwb</author><text>I was just talking to an author who published an ad on Facebook for their sci fi book. They had the word &amp;quot;beat&amp;quot; in the ad. The FB algo said that words intills people to violence, banned her account for 2 months, and kept all the ad money.&lt;p&gt;Funny enough, her book is about the dangers of an algorithm-based AI supersystem...&lt;p&gt;Facebook is the worst.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>herbst</author><text>I realize this was a weird time and masks have been a complicated topic. However:&lt;p&gt;I advertised some masks my grandma has sewn on FB. It was ok, expansive clicks like always but ok. This was running for at least a week or two. But when I changed some text it triggered a new ad review and within no hour my account was banned. It didn&amp;#x27;t even took a hour to deny my appeal as well and my account was lost forever (without ever naming any reason)&lt;p&gt;This account had 50+ (harmless) groups with way over 100k followers as well as a few thousand dollars in ad spend just that year. I didn&amp;#x27;t socialize at all on Facebook which I guess made my account fishy to some degree but all data was correct and passport verified.&lt;p&gt;This is the reason I completely ignore Facebook and all its platforms for whatever reason these days. I don&amp;#x27;t care if it could help my business, it&amp;#x27;s not worth the trouble.</text></comment>
<story><title>Facebook bans Holocaust film for violating race policy</title><url>https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/facebook-holocaust-film-race-policy-1234592908/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bwb</author><text>I was just talking to an author who published an ad on Facebook for their sci fi book. They had the word &amp;quot;beat&amp;quot; in the ad. The FB algo said that words intills people to violence, banned her account for 2 months, and kept all the ad money.&lt;p&gt;Funny enough, her book is about the dangers of an algorithm-based AI supersystem...&lt;p&gt;Facebook is the worst.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cranium</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s fearsome how they filter such words without looking at the context or giving the benefit of the doubt. Now, you have to proactively reword your ideas to make them fit the invisible mold. How has newspeak been going for the public discourse ?</text></comment>