FARCEBOOK earns its nickname

Demonstrates blatant hypocrisy in applying its "violence" standards

A friend of mine who prefers to remain anonymous recently decided to test Facebook (or “Farcebook”, as I call it) to see whether it would apply its community value standards to posts it agrees with.

He noticed someone who had posted this depiction of Vladimir Putin, battle-scarred, with a noose around his neck.

My friend reported this to Farcebook as an unacceptable depiction of violence.

This was the first answer that Farcebook sent him:

As suggested, my friend requested another review of the post. He specified his concerns that it depicted violence.

Here’s Farcebook’s answer on appeal. Note that they explicitly denied that the picture violated their standards for violence:

These are the options Farcebook suggested to my friend:

Can you imagine Farcebook behaving this way if the person depicted with a noose around his neck had been President Biden, or Prime Minister Trudeau, or Klaus Schwab of the World Economic Forum? There’s little doubt in my mind that pictures like that would have been taken down as violating community standards for violence.

What a farce Farcebook is.

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