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I had an old teacher on Facebook yesterday have a spouse censored because it says “stand up for what you believe in even if you stand alone”

Had to click multiple times to see the post as it Facebook gave me multiple warnings on how inappropriate it was to view.

This happens all the time to him. He is the Best person I know. The sort you model your life after.

But having an opinion criticizing any woke mentality gets him temp banned constantly.

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I know that post, and I think it fooled a visual algorithm. Look in the background, and the people in front of the light poles look like they're hanging from gallows.

Someone else did some testing, and they seem to have found the problem, which was indeed a visual issue that an algorithm misinterpreted. https://www.truthorfiction.com/stand-up-for-what-you-believe...

I saw something like this with an image going around with an innocuous inspirational quote (may have been the same one) that had a content warning on it.

Someone said it had some metatags designed to trigger that automated warning filter, but I haven't looked into it to find out if that was what happened.

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