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And if you read further than the very first line...

>A message from Meta to the group dated 13 November said its page “does not follow our Community Standards on prescription drugs”, adding: “We know this is disappointing, but we want to keep Facebook safe and welcoming for everyone.”

>“The disabled accounts were correctly removed for violating a variety of our policies including our Human Exploitation policy,” it added.

... which is much more in-line with the idea that the actual reason is ideological positions. And if you scroll all the way to the bottom of the article you'll see that the "nudity" that was banned was not nudity at all. So non-nude they actually included the drawing in the Guardian article itself.

> The offending post was an artistic depiction of a naked couple, obscured by hearts.





The article also says that Meta reinstated half the accounts providing abortion guidance that had been banned in error.

Given Meta, I’m more inclined to believe code bugs in an automated clean up job which they then move into their appeals process to get corrected.


Well, in these wonderful times we cannot exclude the possibility of entire flows being ran as just prompts, especially moderation and on an AI boo-boo having to roll back by a human. I do believe that's (much) cheaper than human moderation anyway, so it'll grow (even more).



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