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Meta to pull posts targeting 'Zionists' for harm (www.france24.com)

submitted 3 months ago by lemmee_in@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world

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The latest update to Meta's policy regarding use of the word "Zionist" comes as the tech titan behind Facebook and Instagram strives to balance free speech with hateful attacks on Jews.

"We will now remove content that targets 'Zionists' with dehumanizing comparisons, calls for harm, or denials of existence on the basis that 'Zionist' in those instances often appears to be a proxy for Jewish or Israeli people," Meta said in a blog post.

The change expands on Meta's approach of treating the reference as hate speech when it is used along with antisemitic imagery or clearly references the Jewish people.

Meta said it will remove content attacking "Zionists" when -- rather than being tied to that political movement -- it is pegged to antisemitic stereotypes such as claims they run the world or control the media.

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[–] Fitik@fedia.io 15 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Maybe not always, but it usually is, including by Neo-Nazis and antisemites in general

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionist_Occupation_Government_conspiracy_theory

Slur "Zio" for example was coined by the Neo-Nazi David Duke to refer to Jews

https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/2017-07-18/ty-article/.premium/how-chicagos-dyke-march-adopted-an-anti-semitic-slur-dear-to-far-righists/0000017f-e308-d804-ad7f-f3facfd10000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zio_(pejorative)

[–] jeffw@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I love how people downvote instead of reading.

This just in: you can critisize Israel and zionism and still accept that other people have misused the word "zionism" to hide their antisemitism

[–] Fitik@fedia.io 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

It's common for all kinds of bigots to use dog-whistles to avoid being banned

For example this post that got 30k likes says that "Zionists" killed Jesus and more

https://x.com/DrLoupis/status/1785180262181089415?t=50rtTnpLEu0FX3-HEXDWrA&s=19

I think you can understand in what meaning it's often used

[–] Cleverdawny@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago

The word substitution is as blunt and obvious as a baseball bat to a Nazi's face

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