Facebook removes Indian page, says it spread Iranian propaganda

What bothers me is that there are very few things that are not propaganda.<p>All Fox News article are propaganda, all CNN articles are propaganda, but yet they are accepted? Clearly a distinction is made between &#x27;acceptable propaganda&#x27; and &#x27;unacceptable propaganda&#x27;, and this distinction is made by Facebook, an American company.<p>How acceptable is that?

Welcome to Facebook Co. Where a clique of Silicon Valley exec yuppies now decide what is right and what is wrong for us to see.<p>It&#x27;s a very slippery slope. Cannot wait for the next elections where any candidates with politically &quot;wrong&quot; ideas will see their pages silently being discarded or randomly hidden from timelines without warnings.

This is an Israeli propaganda page with 500k likes:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.facebook.com&#x2F;DailyCupOfJane&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.facebook.com&#x2F;DailyCupOfJane&#x2F;</a><p>The &quot;about&quot; section presents it as:<p>&quot;Sugar, spice, and everything nice.Changing the world, one mug at a time. We&#x27;re your daily girl power pick-me-up.<p>Cup of Jane is a community launched by TIP’s Future Media Project in DC. We love our communities!&quot;<p>The discreet acronym TIP stands for &quot;The Israel Project&quot;:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theisraelproject.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theisraelproject.org&#x2F;</a><p>The page mixes feminist and feel-good messages with subtle propaganda for Israel. When is Facebook going to take it down?

Their opinion is that it spread propaganda.<p>Everything written is propaganda depending on what side of the opinion you were on.<p>Although I don’t like it, what is happening today is incredibly fascinating, watching it unfold since I have been using computers since 1990.

This is the risk you take when you are a sharecropper on someone else&#x27;s land. Probably won&#x27;t be long until FB takes an Adblock Plus&#x2F;Yelp gatekeeper approach where they&#x27;ll ban something, and then allow them back if they purchase a certain amount of advertising.<p>They won&#x27;t do it in the West as it would be picked up on the news, but bad actors in places like India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar (those are the ones I know of) would pay to have that &quot;feature&quot;.

“Coordinated inauthentic behaviour&quot;, what a refreshingly honestly dystopian syntagm.

I don&#x27;t know if there is any way to really decide what is inauthentic outside of say only allowing individuals who are verified to post....and nothing else.

What is up with any of the big corporations making these kinds of decisions ‘without appeal or comment’. It borders on criminal to conduct business that way.

reading regular news like these. Guess FB is using Algorithms to ban than using human effort..<p>Facebook is a perfect example of how a monopoly will treat people

tl;dr: They were unwitting accomplices. The propaganda from well known Iranian government outlets was being shared frequently enough, with very little other content, that they were unwittingly part of the machine itself.