Topic: When Algorithms Fail: Ancient Origins' Battle with Facebook Censorship

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When Algorithms Fail: Ancient Origins' Battle with Facebook Censorship
 

<div class="field field-name-field-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" rel="schema:primaryImageOfPage og:image rdfs:seeAlso" resource="https://www.ancient-origins.net/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/field/image/When-Algorithms-Fail.jpg?itok=Ksaj98v3"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://www.ancient-origins.net/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/field/image/When-Algorithms-Fail.jpg?itok=Ksaj98v3" width="610" height="325" alt="Censored on Egyptian wall." /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="schema:description content:encoded"><p>Once again, Ancient Origins has fallen victim to Facebook's censorship system, this time for publishing a factual account of how the National Socialist Party (the Nazi Party) rose to power and exploited myths and false histories to gain popularity and justify its atrocities.</p>
<p>We suspect that this article was held hostage by Facebook’s algorithmic censorship, and was only cleared once a human reviewer stepped in.</p>
<p>If we are prevented from discussing such topics, how can we learn from them? The phrase “Lest we forget…” comes to mind.</p>
<p align="center"><img alt="Flagged Post by Facebook AI" class="media-image" height="804" style="width: 455px; height: 600px;" width="610" typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://www.ancient-origins.net/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/In-the-meantime-our-Facebook-account.jpg?itok=47jvGA_y" /></p>
<p>After a month, restrictions on our Facebook account have finally been lifted as were were accused of violating the platform’s community standards on multiple occasions. Admittedly, we have had previous posts removed for "inappropriate" content, which included images of skeletons, mummies, Roman statues, and Venus figurines, hardly avoidable material for a website dedicated to history and archaeology.</p>
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