Meta’s platforms have become an abominable cesspit of AI slop, ranging from violent child abuse to ultra-patriotic engagement bait.
We could go on and on about Meta’s dismal failure to moderate its platforms. More telling is where it does focus its efforts: the company apparently has set its sights on the LGBTQ community after censoring the accounts of two gay bars in Austin, Texas. Both of the Instagram and Facebook accounts of the bars, Oilcan Harry’s and Rain on 4th, were flagged and censored. As Chron reports, pictures of drag queen performers were being marked as “inappropriate,” with the company threatening that similar posts would reduce the bars’ “visibility.”
Rain on 4th president Scott Neal told Chron that Meta had issued no explanation for why the Instagram account for the spot was taken down in early August.
“You feel helpless, you feel like you are stuck in an unfair system that you do not know how to get out of,” Neal said.
