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Facebook Enabled Advertisers To Reach 'Jew Haters' (propublica.org)
ProPublica is reporting that Facebook "enabled advertisers to direct their pitches to the news feeds of almost 2,300 people who expressed interest in the topics of 'Jew hater,' 'How to burn jews,' or, 'History of why jews ruin the world.'" The organization even went so far as to test these ad categories by paying $30 to target those groups with three "promoted posts" -- in which a ProPublica article or post was displayed in their news feeds. Facebook reportedly approved all three ads within 15 minutes. From the report: After we contacted Facebook, it removed the anti-Semitic categories -- which were created by an algorithm rather than by people -- and said it would explore ways to fix the problem, such as limiting the number of categories available or scrutinizing them before they are displayed to buyers. In all likelihood, the ad categories that we spotted were automatically generated because people had listed those anti-Semitic themes on their Facebook profiles as an interest, an employer or a "field of study." Facebook's algorithm automatically transforms people's declared interests into advertising categories. [ProPublica provides a screenshot of their ad buying process on the company's advertising portal.]
"There are times where content is surfaced on our platform that violates our standards," said Rob Leathern, product management director at Facebook. "In this case, we've removed the associated targeting fields in question. We know we have more work to do, so we're also building new guardrails in our product and review processes to prevent other issues like this from happening in the future."
"There are times where content is surfaced on our platform that violates our standards," said Rob Leathern, product management director at Facebook. "In this case, we've removed the associated targeting fields in question. We know we have more work to do, so we're also building new guardrails in our product and review processes to prevent other issues like this from happening in the future."
You obviously do not have a Jewish child at a UC.
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Why do I feel like 4chan figured out how their algorithms work and did this to troll FB?
I have no idea. There are so many jew hating nut bags polluting the Internet that it isn't the least bit surprising that an ad targeting system generated these categories. Another thing that doesn't cause me even the slightest surprise is that Facebook had to have this pointed out to them; have no doubt that every other conceivable identity group has automated protection already built-in. The only question that might hold a little interest is just how high up the Facebook chain of command did this issue have to go before it reached someone that understood this to be a problem.
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Nice try but left wing progressives don't hate Jews and many Jews are left wing progressives. You may have confused antisemitism with dislike of some of the actions of the Israeli state, most obviously their mistreatment of the Palestinians.
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of antisemitism there, but none the incidence have been traced to left leaning groups and the staff has consistently denounced antisemitism even if they don't outright ban it. As for why banning it isn't helpful, well there's a good reason why right here. Letting them hold their little rallies and seeing how few show up to rally is way more productive then banning them.
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False alarm, everyone. They were targeting "Jew hatters" and were looking for a distributor for their yarmulkes.
(rolls eyes) goyim.
I don't think there are actually that many jew-hating nutbags, but the opportunity anonymnity presents encourages and amplifies their hooting and hollering.
Antisemitism has historically been linked to anti-banker and anti-capitalist sentiments. Christians and Muslims are prohibited by their respective religious texts from engaging in usury and for a lot of the last few hundred years this meant that the only people who made money by lending money (and, therefore, the only people that you could get a loan from) were Jews. This was inshrined in law in a lot of Europe: Christians and Muslims were prohibited not just by their faith, but by the legal system, from charging interest.
It's no accident that the enemy of the Party in Nineteen Eighty-Four had a Jewish name: Jews were seen as the enemies of socialism (and the Party, like the USSR, still claimed to be socialist in spite of having few traits in common with socialism).
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They are the ones who accuse Israel of taking Palestinian land [...]
Accuse? Just accuse??? Israel has a long history of stealing Palestinian land and abusing Palestinians in general. This goes far beyond unsupported accusations; these crimes are well recorded, widely condemned, and a shameful stain on the state of Israel. Calling this Antisemitism says more about the speaker than the accused.
[...] and don't want Israel to even exist.
Reality is far more nuanced than this propaganda association. This kind of linking is what makes the current Israeli government such a dreary bunch of whiners. Even the mildest critique on the behaviour of Israel is immediately labeled as antisemitism.
In countries with severe censorship, the rumor mill allows fringe ideas to spread rapidly, and they are more easily believed because nobody believes the official denials of the authorities. So, if you are calling for censorship, we already know from experience that your plan won't work. To confirm what I'm saying, all you have to do is look at the extremely paranoid theories about Jews held by Muslims living under authoritarian governments.
Keep in mind that all the great scientific theories were once fringe ideas. Your notion that an idea should be suppressed merely because few hold it would bring a halt to scientific development.
I think it is only fair to point out that hatred is a two-way street, and if you find members of group X hating group Y, you inevitably find members of group Y hating group X.
Regards to 1984, it's because the book is about Stalinism and the figure of hate is a cipher for Trotsky.
Antisemitism has historically been linked to anti-banker and anti-capitalist sentiments
Except for the largest antisemitic group in history, the Nazis who were decidedly right wing. Or the current crop of anti-semites who are also decidedly right wing (Sorry, but nowhere has HAMAS said they want justice and social harmony for Palestinians, their main goal is simply the destruction of Israel, same with Iran as theocracy centralises power, not distributes wealth. Both Iran and Palestine have capitalist systems firmly in place as the place was a centre of trade for millennia before the US even existed).
Dont confuse people being anti-Jewish with being anti-Bankers. They're quite happy to accept white bankers.
Proper leftists have no issues with Jews, Antisemitism tends to be linked to extremist nationalism, which is firmly on the extreme right.
It's no accident that the enemy of the Party in Nineteen Eighty-Four had a Jewish name: Jews were seen as the enemies of socialism (and the Party, like the USSR, still claimed to be socialist in spite of having few traits in common with socialism).
It helps if you read Nineteen Eighty-Four before commenting on it. The society in 1984 (for brevity's sake) still used money (although there were shortages of almost everything). The idea behind IngSoc is that it was neither English, nor Socialist. Pretty sure George Orwell used those exact words in the novel 1984. You see 1984 was a diatribe against Nazi Facism, it centred on the theme of an institutionalised class structure (inner party members -> outer party members -> Proles) with each cast receiving fewer rights than the one above it, institutionalised surveillance and government control as well extreme nationalism and the perpetual war that comes along with it. The use of the Jewish name Goldstein, was just to link it to Nazism and their Antisemitism and the fact that National Socialism has nothing to do with Socialism as we define it.
Orwell left thinly veiled cues of the society he was ripping off in names, for example in Animal Farm, his diatribe against Stalinist Communism he used Trotsky pigs as the farm animal's leaders in reference to Leon Trotsky who was an early Communist party member under Lenin and who Stalin had killed when he took power after Lenins death.
Calling someone a "hater" only means you can not rationally rebut their argument.
Which, to me, makes this even more confusing. Anti-capitalist AND anti-socialist...so people are claiming that Jews are against capitalism AND socialism? I grok that it is two different groups claiming this...which, to me, just means using Jews as a scapegoat. Both can't be true, it's one or the other.
In reality, it's really tribalism. Jews are one of the oldest surviving "tribes" that still hold a cohesive connection with their ancient past. The Talmudic customs and rituals extend further back than most people can really comprehend; past Babylon, probably into Sumerian time periods. In modern humans, tribalism (IMHO) is linked deeply with "the fear of others), which itself is a remnant of the VERY ancient past with there were multiple human species roaming the earth.
Except for the largest antisemitic group in history, the Nazis who were decidedly right wing.
If you believe this, then you really have a very shallow grasp of history. Persecuting Jews was a popular pastime in Europe for a long time before the Nazis came along. Read The Merchant of Venice sometime to get a feel for how Jews were perceived in Shakespeare's time. Even the term Pogrom predate the Nazis by a good 40-50 years. The two largest groups that have actively persecuted Jews are Catholics and Muslims. Nazis don't even beat Russians in terms of the number of people doing the persecuting or the number of Jews killed.
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