The policy change follows years of Meta and its chief executive Mark Zuckerberg’s pivot of political convenience toward President Donald Trump and his base. Following Trump’s second electoral victory, Meta quickly changed its speech rules to allow for anti-transgender slurs and dehumanization of immigrants, The Intercept previously reported, aligning the company with longtime MAGA culture war grievances.
Asked about the new restrictions on the word “antifa,” Meta spokesperson Erica Sackin pointed to a March transparency report that noted the company would “remove QAnon and Antifa content when combined with content-level threat signals.” The report does not explain what those signals are. Meta did not respond when asked if the company had discussed its antifa speech rules with the Trump administration.
Meta largely outsources the enforcement of its Community Standards rules to low-paid contractors whose interpretation and application of the policies can vary. The company’s automated, algorithmic content moderation systems are also famously glitchy. This combination can result in erratic censorship, particularly when political ideology is classified as violent or terroristic.
The only time I ever see the word used is by some conservative Karen bleating about how it’s a terrorist org or whatever, so nice self-own I guess?
Antifa antifa antifa antifa antifa oh damn looks like lemmy is not yet ruled by pedophiles
Here’s how you have to talk on YouTube about this “Mamifa … mamifa …PDF files”
Yea I know, and schmurder and unalive and that shit
Fuck them all
Antifa is not really a thing, they could also call it anti personal hygiene club because that’s kind of how they smell.
Also there is a diversity of leftwing ideas that are at odds with each other.
The MAGA right tries to make this into an organization with clear goals and that’s just ridiculous.
I think the word is mostly used by the far right anyways
This is why Facebook is banned in China and should be in any civilized country. It’s nothing but an extension of US soft power and its fascist imperialist tentacles.
Hahaha. If only the US government were more than a bunch of bafoons with too much power. You are giving everyone in the government too much credit for their abilities.
So, anti fascism is not allowed in USA? Understandable, it want not allowed in Italy 1922-1943 nor in Germany 1933-1945.
Italy has always been a trend setter. Trump is just a cheap mashup of Berlusconi and Mussolini
And netynahu is Hitler
Good. People who still utilize these properties should be abused until they realize they can use a different service.
I think this would only push antifaschist users out, and leave the platform with only nazis and indifferent people.
Imma bout to get banned on instagram…
is that the same guy claiming that there should be no moderation on Facebook for “true freedom” and who cried his eyes out telling stories of horrible Democracts making him take out deranged individuals off platform? Well…
You cannot be pro Democracy without being Antifa. If you do not support fascism, you are antifa.
I am now a terrorist (=
We all are
Anti Antifa = Fa
Conservative voters are so stupid, they actually think Antifa and Anonymous are official, trademarked, centralized organizations. Just start saying the full thing, “anti-fascist” when describing protestors, etc…
The right love their bogeymen.
Gotta have an other to point at.
I for one am a proud member of ITSWA (international t-shirt wearer association)
child exploitation and hate speech, cool cool cool. any mention of a loose-knit global movement against fascism that has existed for decades, that’s dangerous. priorities!
The only criterion is: are billionaires into it, or does it threaten them?
Here’s everybody’s reminder that every WWII vet (at least from the Allied forces) was antifa.
I would love to see a series of comics featuring Uncle Sam and Auntie Fay as like, a modern Archie and Edith. Or maybe as bitter divorcees but Sam is always shooting himself in the foot and blaming it on his ex-wife Fay, but she’s logical and always catches him in his own trap with some sort of clever fourth-panel punchline.
No anti-fascist calls themselves antifa and being anti-fascist is the default state of being for every single person who is not a fascist.
‘Antifa’ is a fabricated scare term prompted by the right-wing elite’s media influence campaign. It exists as a term in order to imply that there is some actual secret organization which can be presented as the boogey man to scare working-class people and/or to label as a terrorist organization so the elites in power can use the power of law enforcement to attack and jail their monied political opponents by claiming their association with or funding of a ‘known domestic terror group’.
Anything saying ‘antifa’ on social media is either intentional propaganda or the ignorant masses propagating those same memes.
That’s really not true. I’ve seen the term antifa (standing for anti-fascism) used plenty for many decades now.
We’ve had antifa spray tags in my school’s walls.
It may seems obscure to some parts of the world but for those of us who suffered under fascism multiple times (south Europe) it’s a very familiar phrase from a long time before trump become president.
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In the US though he’s absolutely correct. It’s just not a term anyone but MAGAts use. This rule really is only gonna censor the people trying to fear monger, and not any actual “antifa members” because they don’t exist.
not any actual “antifa members” because they don’t exist.
Well, I guess that explains how easy it was to establish fascism in the US.
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Imagine seeing everything happening in the last year and still advocating for censorship jfc.
I’m not even a hardcore leftist by European standards and sometimes the mentality over there just buffles me.
I’ve seen the term antifa (standing for anti-fascism) used plenty for many decades now.
Oh excuse me for not assuming every single person online is an american citizen.
IDGAF. The world is more than the US and americans need to wake up and realize this one day. They are not perfect and neither is anyone else, we’re a bunch of imperfect idiots trying to share a rock in space. And this requires empathy.
This thread is specifically about “QAnon and Antifa content" and if Meta “had discussed its antifa speech rules with the Trump administration.”
Yes, the world is more than the US, but we are discussing censorship in the US so the labeling of any dissenting opinion as Antifa is a trick specific to the Trump administration.
Highlighting that the Google Trends for this term in the US only becomes relevant after 2016 is highly relevant.
You need to read Antifa, a manual written by Mark Bray. You will be surprised with history. The real propaganda was the billionaire media that biased your opinion. No offense (unless you really skip skimming through the easily found online epub, in which case you’d be denying yourself the chance to grow and hence lose any respect I had for the human being you are ;)
No anti-fascist calls themselves antifa
Maybe in murica, but not in Germany
I really hope enough people know this.
Maybe Iran will put out a Lego video explaining it.
“Iran, if you’re listening…”
I think the term antifa was originally just that- short for anti fascist. But it got hijacked and slandered and labeled teroor org. By entities that felt encouraged to do that.
But you’re definitely right. Being an anti fascist is a default state of human being.
Please learn some history
We’re not living in history, we’re living in current events.
In the year of our Lord 2026, on Facebook, ‘antifa’ is a term coopted by the right as I’ve outlined above.
Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it. When the right tries to keyword hack you, don’t play into their game by accepting it as state of things. Antifa means being against fascism, simple as. And we all should be antifa.
You sound ridiculous
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Antifa is, as far as I know, the US abbreviation for Anti Fascist Action. This was an organization founded in the eighties in the UK with decentralized local chapters with the ability to mobilize. They were out in the streets violently confronting the fascists. It died out in the late nineties
Copy cat groupings had started appearing in other European countries by that time. In Sweden, we called them AFA. The antifa logo I’ve seen in US media is the logo of Anti Fascist Action. But that’s just my understanding.
“Antifascist Action” was first used by the Communist Party of Germany during the Weimar years (As “Antifaschistische Aktion”). It was a united front to oppose the Nazis rise and materially fight back against the brown shirts and their allies. It’s also where we get the common logo associated with antifascism today
I’m right here. Your dear Aunt Tifa.
Antifa is as old as fascism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-fascism
Yes, Anti-fascism is old.
My point is that the specific word “Antifa” has only been used since 2016 in the US.
Definetly used world wide at least since the 80s and yes basically meaning anti fascist.
yes, but it wasn’t being weaponised as a brand, is what they’re getting at, until 2016. Before that it wasn’t being used like a cudgel.
Then they should have written that, instead of “Antifa only existed after Trump won”.
Look at the Google Trends link. The word Antifa wasn’t commonly used in the US before 2016
Try 1930 Germany
I’m specifically talking about the US and the word “Antifa”.
My point is that the specific word “Antifa” has only been used since 2016 in the US.
Factually wrong.
If you truly think that terms only exist when they show up as statistically relevant on Google trends then you’re beyond saving, I’m sorry.
Antifa as only been common language in the US since 2016. Fact.
