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My meme about a 2019 event got 50,000 views before it was taken down
I made a simple image edit about a protest in Hong Kong last month, and it spread fast. The platforms said it broke rules on 'harmful content,' but it was just a historical photo with a joke caption. Some say this stops dangerous lies, others say it hides important talk. Has your stuff ever been removed for just showing old news?
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the_fiona1mo agoMost Upvoted
That slippery slope from stopping lies to erasing history is real. Saw a page get banned for posting a scanned newspaper front page about a past war, no comment added. The algorithm just saw the old conflict terms and killed it. Makes you wonder if future students will have gaps because this stuff wasn't just archived, it was actively deleted. How do we save plain records from the clean-up bots?
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martinez.diana2mo ago
The part about it just being a historical photo with a joke caption hits home. I used to be all for platforms cleaning things up, thinking it was just about obvious lies. Then I had a post about an old, verified news article from my local paper get flagged. It wasn't arguing anything, just stating what happened. That made me see how a broad rule can accidentally wipe out plain facts. Now the whole system just feels clumsy.
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