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This is outrage bait and pretty low even for CNN.

They made a report showing alleged prisoner in Syria who turned to be an intelligent officer in Assad’s regime. So don’t expect any better.

Source https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/12/16/middleeast/syria-assad-pr...

Those two things certainly aren't in conflict, jailing your own people is pretty typical.

You didn’t watch the report, did you?

It was a clear setup

Yes, but not by CNN, even though they should have known better.

Why do you say that? I checked the policy change and they have removed the literal "don't do this" example and the whole category above it.

Seeing as FB moderation was already lax on hate speech, do you think calling women 'household objects' will not be permitted in the future FB?

FB moderation has been a complete failure compared to Twitter’s community notes system. This is Meta switching from authoritarian moderation to community-driven notes. This should be presented as a good thing, but every news outlet out there is spinning it negatively as “Facebook is removing all moderation.” No mention of what they are adding in its place.

It was not lax, but bent in strange ways.

E.g. FB was banning people for using a historical term when discussing Russian-Ukraine war - „Muscovite“. Which has no derogatory connotations mind you. Besides reminding that modern Russia started as Duchy of Moscow. And to make distinction between Rus/Ruthenian people (e.g. Kievan Rus) and modern Russia. Yet FB considered it hate speech for some god forsaken reason.

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