Leave it to the Washington Post to ignore the real story — Facebook’s massive smearing of legitimate perspectives as “hate speech” and wholesale blocking or removal of counter-jihad material — and to focus on Muslims, and specifically the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations, as if they were the real victims of this censorship. In reality, it is being done on their behalf: Facebook’s Vice President Joel Kaplan traveled to Pakistan in July to assure the Pakistani government that it would remove “anti-Islam” material.
“In February, amid mounting concerns over Facebook’s role in the spread of violent live videos and fake news, Zuckerberg said the platform had a responsibility to ‘mitigate the bad’ effects of the service in a more dangerous and divisive political era.”
In mid-February, traffic to Jihad Watch from Facebook dropped suddenly by 90% and has never recovered. We do not post any hateful or provocative material and neither incite nor approve of violence, but Facebook is acting as judge, jury and executioner in all this. There is no appeal and no recourse.
This is at heart a Sharia endeavor, an Islamic supremacist attempt to compel the West to adopt Sharia blasphemy laws forbidding criticism of Islam, and it’s working well. So well, in fact, that as it goes on, as the ground is being cut out from under the feet of those whom she opposes, Hamas-linked CAIR’s Zahra Balloo can play the victim in the Washington Post.
“A white man called her kids the n-word. Facebook stopped her from sharing it.,” by Tracy Jan and Elizabeth Dwoskin, Washington Post, July 31, 2017:
…In February, amid mounting concerns over Facebook’s role in the spread of violent live videos and fake news, Zuckerberg said the platform had a responsibility to “mitigate the bad” effects of the service in a more dangerous and divisive political era. In June, he officially changed Facebook’s mission from connecting the world to community-building.
The company says it now deletes about 288,000 hate-speech posts a month.
But activists say that Facebook’s censorship standards are so unclear and biased that it is impossible to know what one can or cannot say.
The result: Minority groups say they are disproportionately censored when they use the social-media platform to call out racism or start dialogues. In the case of Latour and her family, she was simply repeating what the man who verbally assaulted her children said: “What the f— is up with those f—ing n—-r heads?”
Compounding their pain, Facebook will often go from censoring posts to locking users out of their accounts for 24 hours or more, without explanation — a punishment known among activists as “Facebook jail.”
“In the era of mass incarceration, you come into this digital space — this one space that seems safe — and then you get attacked by the trolls and put in Facebook jail,” said Stacey Patton, a journalism professor at Morgan State University, a historically black university in Baltimore. “It totally contradicts Mr. Zuckerberg’s mission to create a public square.”
In June, the company said that nearly 2 billion people now log onto Facebook each month. With the company’s dramatic growth comes the challenge of maintaining internally consistent standards as its content moderators are faced with a growing number of judgment calls.
“Facebook is regulating more human speech than any government does now or ever has,” said Susan Benesch, director of the Dangerous Speech Project, a nonprofit group that researches the intersection of harmful online content and free speech. “They are like a de facto body of law, yet that law is a secret.”
The company recently admitted, in a blog post, that “too often we get it wrong,” particularly in cases when people are using certain terms to describe hateful experiences that happened to them. The company has promised to hire 3,000 more content moderators before the year’s end, bringing the total to 7,500, and is looking to improve the software it uses to flag hate speech, a spokeswoman said.
“We know this is a problem,” said Facebook spokeswoman Ruchika Budhraja, adding that the company has been meeting with community activists for several years. “We’re working on evolving not just our policies but our tools. We are listening.”
Two weeks after Donald Trump won the presidency, Zahra Billoo, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations’ office for the San Francisco Bay area, posted to Facebook an image of a handwritten letter mailed to a San Jose mosque and quoted from it: “He’s going to do to you Muslims what Hitler did to the Jews.”
The post — made to four Facebook accounts — contained a notation clarifying that the statement came from hate mail sent to the mosque, as Facebook guidelines advise.
Facebook removed the post from two of the accounts — Billoo’s personal page and the council’s local chapter page — but allowed identical posts to remain on two others — the organization’s national page and Billoo’s public one. The civil rights attorney was baffled. After she re-posted the message on her personal page, it was again removed, and Billoo received a notice saying she would be locked out of Facebook for 24 hours.
“How am I supposed to do my work of challenging hate if I can’t even share information showing that hate?” she said.
Billoo eventually received an automated apology from Facebook, and the post was restored to the local chapter page — but not her personal one…
Isahiah62 says
“violent live videos and fake news”
HMM that’s odd the violent videos teaching now to stab JEWS and the pages advocating Death to America, showing USA troops blown up,any slander libel or lie about Israel, the Pallywood faked videos, the Syrian dead passed off as Gazan… NONE of those get removed !!! not even with reports- they ALL get a PASS….. so Jewhate is OK with Facebook but say anything, even if true, about Muslims_BANNED. Zuckerberg is a YIDIOT
Francesca says
Dump Facebook. Who needs it?
James Pierce says
People who want to show the whole world what they ate for dinner and get into arguments with people they haven’t seen in 20 years, I think.
mortimer says
Mr. Zuckerberg, please think about what you are doing. It is endangering Jews to stop the criticism of Islamic terrorism.
Jews will suffer the most by your censorship of all speech that criticizes Islam.
Mr. Zuckerberg, do you care about Jews? Are you not Jewish? Who will defend you when Jews are arrested by the Muslims?
r.chohan says
He, himself is a JEW Mr Zuckerberg. And also Muslim Lover nr. 1
Ronald D Trump (@RonaldDTrump) says
Do you know any substitutes?
James Pierce says
Conversing with people who are actually n the room with you is an excellent substitute.
John Forbes says
EVERYONE needs to DUMP FACEBOOK & let Zukerman know why !
This is another capitulation to the LEFT & their main allies ISLAM & SOROS & MERKEL !
But Others are also blocking & censoring – Google & You Tube so the place to add a VOICE of protest over the deliberate shut down of FREE SPEECH & the continual Attack on our DEMOCRACY by the LEFT & ISLAM is narrowing !
We all need to insist that the LEFTIST SOROS or DEMOCRATS be removed & HELP TRUMP get more of his people into power !
I see this as a concerted attempt to make this PRESIDENCY UNGOVERNABLE & this must not be allowed to happen !
We need to stand up to SOROS & the LEFT & ISLAM ( including the Muslim Brotherhood who have so successfully infiltrated many levels of government & CAIR )
JawsV says
I call it Fake Book and have nothing to do with it. I detest Z for inflicting it upon us.
Terry says
First it’s Facebook ………………
Andy says
YouTube’s New Censorship Will Creep You Out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6MZ5-KCT3g
Jean Terry says
I wondered about that. There are some articles in Jihad Watch where I go to read them. and they are not there. That is Google. Or, I don’t understand it.
Ken says
When I search “jihad” on facebook, “jihad watch” is the first suggestive search. When I try to get results for “jihad watch”, I get a rotating “working” graphic, but no results. The only way I could find the jihad watch page on facebook was by searching “jihad watch facebook” using google.
I had the same problem when searching “robert spencer”
somehistory says
I have no use for facebook. I don’t go there. If I did, I’m sure I would be perm banned for telling the truth.
And so what if someone calls your kids names. That has happened in the past to a whole lot of people and they didn’t go on a whining circuit to tell everyone about.it. As long as there is no physical violence, actual or threatened, children can be taught to ignore the words.
IMO, there is way too much *sharing* of personal stuff on those social media sites. It has caused a lot of grief in a world that already has an overload.
The truth about islum will get out. The truth always gets revealed.
JawsV says
I saw this article on the WP a few days ago and was immediately turned off by the headgear photo. Boo Hoo! The WP should re-name itself the Post-Jazeera.
somehistory says
Scarves were at one time worn by people like Sophia Loren or other women admired for their beauty, or ordinary women to cover their hair in the rain and wind, or their curlers.
Now, when I see scarves, it is mainly on these creatures and they give my stomach a turn. It shouts of fake modesty and supremacy.
gravenimage says
And Western women who wore scarves in the 1950s and 1960s rarely covered their hair completely. Definitely different from the Hijab.
somehistory says
Not only some of their hair showed, but also neck, shoulders,and sometimes ears, depending on why they were wearing it. Def not face squishers.
My mother wore them in the field when she was planting, hoeing or picking the crops.
Totally different. It’s rather like they have spoiled it, as they have spoiled so many other things.
gravenimage says
Exactly, Somehistory. My mother used to wear a scarf on days when she didn’t fix her hair or when it was windy, as did many women in the neighborhood when I was a kid.
pdxnag says
How many of those are anti-hate speech, objections to the inherent hate and violence in Islam? Enforcing the Islamic/Sharia blasphemy law is hate “speech” of the most evil sort — to advance totalitarianism at the heart of Islamic Supremacy.
carol says
That subtlety seems lost on them though it really is the elephant in the room.
gravenimage says
Facebook deletes 288,000 “hate speech” posts monthly, including counter-jihad posts, Hamas-linked CAIR still plays victim
……………….
In other words, bow deeper, dhimmis.
Lydia says
Just use any means to get the truth out while we can.
That’s what I do.
James Pierce says
I wish Facebook would delete itself from the face of the earth
tgusa says
It has become crystal clear that facebook and the rest of the ussa are modern day book burners. I hope Mark and the rest of the ussa collective get all the islam they are asking for. The rest of us should keep our distance from them as they busily push the delete key on themselves.Idiots.
PRCS says
Deal Miss Biloo asks, “How am I supposed to do my work of challenging hate if I can’t even share information showing that hate?”
Oh, c’mon, now..
There are plenty of hateful, supremacist passages from Qur’an and Sunna she can post on Facebook. Who’s prohibiting her from doing that?
Here’s a suggestion:
“Judgment Day will come only when the Muslims fight the Jews and kill them, until the Jew hides behind the tree and the stone, and the tree and the stone say: ‘Oh Muslim, Oh servant of Allah , there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him”
mortimer says
Facebook is asking free speech defenders to create an alternative to Facebook and that alternative is being developed… a number of them. Once free speech defenders make the decision, Facebook will lose a lot of revenue and likely go bust.
The internet has become popular because it is a free speech zone. Censorship will kill the web sites that use it. No one will use them. They will become ghost towns.
utis says
Absolutely right. Facebook needs competition. Otherwise, it will completely become Big Brother’s mouthpiece. Kill free speech and you kill freedom.
Andy says
Watch driver kick Muslims off bus; then this happens
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCwqn5IUOco
S Kevin Wojtaszek says
OT: I’m wayyy to the left of most who post here but Sweden’s behavior in this matter really offends me. http://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/world/2017/july/disregarding-danger-sweden-to-deport-christian-to-iran?cpid=:ID:-20821-:DT:-2017-08-02-09:12:04-:US:-AB1-:CN:-CP1-:PO:-NC1-:ME:-SU1-:SO:-FB1-:SP:-NW1-:PF:-TX1-
gravenimage says
Thanks for the link, Kevin.
Irene Brekelmans says
That is what happens everywhere, they don’t want anybody to tell the truth. They never told the truth.
And if you tell the truth, you get fired from your job, or killed or harassed.
My God, I may only hope that there will always still people around who tell the truth, because only the truth will set you free. Some lawyer should help this man. And who pays the lawyers fees for these Somalian women, the Brotherhood of Muslims?Or the government? Shame. The man did his job, but you see these things happening everywhere.
Irene Brekelmans says
If they are getting 288.000 hate speeches from Face book,don’t you think there is something wrong doing going on or are you that dense?
Dapto says
Zuckerberg has joined the Soros Nazi i love you Hitler fan club.
Gwenie Mugliston says
I dumped Facebook several years ago. It was not easy to do so. I did it because I sensed criticism of the Liberal Establishment was an ongoing practice and found what I wrote about religions actually being cults by Webster (etc) definitions being removed or just not posted, I knew we were in trouble.
I missed Facebook for about 20 days, then one day I woke up and literally felt relief. I didn’t have to check in to Facebook.
Now, increasingly, I find I cannot post comments after reading various news outlets because the only way I might be able to is to be a member of Facebook. That is truly disgusting.
I think it is an infringement on my capacity as a citizen to exercise free speech.
RonaldB says
Why not take out a dummy account, put no personal information on it, and don’t post on it? You could use that for an id.
And if you say it violates your principles, why should anyone exert any effort to allow you to indulge your desire to not create a stick-man account?
Gordon Miller says
I’m beginning to believe in the supernatural. Some being must have cast a spell over the Western world that makes many of us believe that Islam is a religion of peace and must be protected, and goes further to silence all those who disagree.
Franklin P. Uroda says
Another strategy of the oppressors who claim to be the victims, and thereby strive to get another inch of credibility.
Ade says
I suspect you-tube has done something to my account so that I don’t get likes for comments I place on many videos … If I leave a comment on an “islamophobic” video and go back months later, I often have zero likes when other similar comments from other bloggers have hundreds or thousands of likes … Something fishy is going on
FX Meaney says
Why am I having so much trouble logging on to Jihad Watch. I now keep getting time out notices and I give up and go on to other sites. Is this Google or Comcast doing the slowdown?
gravenimage says
FX, you can write Jihad Watch using the “Contact Us” box–they should be able to help you.
Andy says
Never signed up to FAKE-BOOK. After seeing so many comments about it. I made the right decision.
RonaldB says
I didn’t see the movie “The Social Network” but the reports said it portrayed Zuckerberg as an unethical, unprincipled, genius sociopath who would step over his friends or anyone else to achieve success.
Now, Zuckerberg seems to view success as being included in the rarefied atmosphere and exclusive club of the true leaders and shakers of the world. So, of course Zuckerberg would institute arbitrary censorship and lockout devices that he can show to his pals Merkel, the Prime Minister of Pakistan, and likely the other 56 leaders of Muslim countries.
Using arguments based on values to Facebook is like trying to train a dog using rational arguments.
It’s far more dangerous to attempt to use government to force Facebook to accept postings, than to accept the necessity of working around Facebook and YouTube. Once government has successfully put itself into a position of controlling the content of media in any way, there will be no appeal or recourse to competitive alternatives.
The appropriate response to Facebook is to ignore it as much as possible, and find alternative means of getting your message out. Putting all your eggs into one basket carried by a sociopathic personality is never a good idea.
Creole Gumbo says
With Jews like Zukerburg who needs Nazis to carry out the agenda?
gravenimage says
There are plenty of dhimmi Gentiles, as well. This is not about Jewish people.
Brien Doyle says
I was blocked by Facebook for the third time, for 30 days.
I was reported by a butthurt Muslim who said that Islam is a religion of peace. I called him a liar and printed a page showing the constant wars by Islam throughout its history.
He reported me for feeling offended.
FB has chosen to censor all comments critical of Islam regardless of truth and honesty. Facebook has skirted around our laws on human rights and our freedom of speech.
We need to sue FB.
Look for all suits against FB and share – we need to hurt FB where it counts! And force them to follow human rights – not religious privilege!
Now let’s expand on this – FB has allowed the ‘blasphemy’ laws to take precedence here; he is blocking all criticism about Islam.
At the same time he is allowing those same ‘offended’ Muslims to make death threats with no consequence.
As FB becomes more powerful, and untouchable, it has essentially given tacit permission to kill those who criticise. (same as the Malaysian Government hunting down atheists – http://www.themalaymailonline.com/malaysia/article/deputy-minister-probe-underway-on-muslims-joining-atheist-club#DVmUDsrkMRkOYImX.97 )
ROBERT BROWN says
Zuckerberg is an imbecile, he’s been taken over by Sharia crazy employees, intent on suppressing ALL criticism of Islam. I’ve been banned three times now, for simply telling the truth about Islam, and the threat it poses to the West…all ignored. Saying that muslims breed like rats probably did it last time..do you know what?..i’m past caring now, if our dumb Govt in the UK can’t see it, well, we are lost. Our freedom of speech is gone…it is normal for humans to hate, as well as love…well i hate muslims, they threaten my way of life..and Zuckerberg will get his head cleaved off by these imbeciles, yet he indulges them…what a moron.