Talk:Facebook

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Disciplinary policies of Facebook

We'd need an extra (sub)section on disciplinary policies of Facebook. I read here and there in (mainstream) news media about suspension or deletion from Facebook. But while I'm no member of Facebook, I don't know how to interpret such news facts, which nevertheless have repercussions in the real world. --Corriebertus (talk) 07:25, 27 December 2020 (UTC)

Facebook made a huge big deal about this, founding their independent oversight committee. While the big news splash was about reïnstating Donald Trump or not, the committee is supposed to also handle appeals of profound misjudgments from FB employees. There's nothing in this article about the oversight committee. SchmuckyTheCat (talk) 06:14, 13 March 2021 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 15 March 2021

In "Facebook announced in 2021 that it will make effort stop disinformation about climate change", add "to" after "effort". Kleinpecan (talk) 03:45, 15 March 2021 (UTC)

 Already done. ◢  Ganbaruby!  (Say hi!) 06:25, 15 March 2021 (UTC)

New section titled 'Safety' is needed

To list incidents when Facebook helped cause or directly caused injuries or death just like an airliner with a design flaw that causes fatal crashes and Wikipedia does list these. 5.4 Emotional health is getting close to the subject of Safety but not quite fully there.2Safe (talk) 06:40, 10 May 2021 (UTC)

Needs a section on "Safety." Especially as a 100-year "Memorial Day" Safety Lesson comparing Tulsa’s 1921 localised racial riots to Minneapolis' 2020 racial unrest...

...where a video on just the latter part of an arrest and the potential to mislead and incite rioting, was recklessly put on Facebook, quickly went viral and rapidly triggered a nationwide deadly outbreak of racial unrest.

Furthermore, Facebook, started as a means to identify “hot” people in college, helped created that fiery rapid nationwide racial unrest with protests and riots over an event that clearly wasn’t a well-defined example of a black versus white racial hate incident as the arresting Police were comprised of black, white and Asian race. Also, that video on Facebook did not identify the deadly drug Fentanyl being present in Floyd's body when it was present.

Ironically, Memorial Day was started to commemorate the Civil war dead, the deadliest war the US has ever had and later all wars, yet in 2020 Americans nationwide quickly polarized and fought each other in a fiery series riots and protests helped by a video which had the potential to mislead and incite riots by showing just the latter part of an arrest, was recklessly uploaded to Facebook, a company whose CEO’s infamous past reckless motto was “run fast and break things” and yet who boasted that Facebook has made the world a better place and could have stopped Gulf War 2 if had been around a year earlier complaining “Americans were misled on Weapons of Mass Destruction when going to fight in Iraq in 2003.

The Comparison

1921 Memorial Day Tulsa

The trigger - Black male teen entering lift- slips or assaults White teen female lift operator- Charged with Assault.

The Communication- Local paper, 1921 telephone through a manual operated switchboard. Radio in its infancy.

Extant of the riot- Limited to one suburb in Tulsa

2020 Memorial Day Minneapolis

The full incident

1. Black staff in a store call police when a heavily intoxicated Black man buys cigarettes with a fake $20 bill

2. Four Police Respond comprising a mixed race. 2 White, 1 Asian, 1 Black,

3. The heavily intoxicated Black man is arrested behind the wheel of a car carrying 2 black passengers

4. The Black man complains “I can’t breathe” whilst in the car trying to evade arrest without Police touching him*

The Trigger

5. The black man later dies under the knee of one of the White Police complaining “I can’t breathe” whilst bystanders, one filming, are blocked including by a police officer of Asian descent.

The Communication - A Facebook video on just the last part of the arrest showing the death- A black teenager uploaded the video to Facebook that quickly went viral.

The Extent of protests & riots - Protests quickly spread nationwide and to over 2,000 cities and towns in over 60 countries in support of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement.

What the Facebook video didn’t show but other video later did and was used in the trial

1. The shops Black staff that called Police after Floyd used a fake $20.

2. The entire arrest

i. Starting with Floyd arrested behind the steering wheel of a car carrying 2 other adult black passenger one dressed in bright in red exiting the car and leaving the scene.

ii. Floyd complaining to Police “I can’t breathe” when resisting arrest in the car without Police touching him.

iii. The specific mix of races in the 4 police including Black and Asian.

3. The Fentanyl in Floyds system

4. How deadly Fentanyl is and how it does hinder a person’s breathing.2Safe (talk) 12:47, 31 May 2021 (UTC)

@2Safe: What you're proposing is more than just a section. All the stuff you're saying that should be in the proposed section might be better in it's own article. Good luck getting consensus. Mr. C.C.^{Hey yo!}_{I didn't do it!} 20:04, 1 June 2021 (UTC)

"Stylized as facebook"

Per discussion at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Trademarks#TMSTYLE I'm proposing that we remove the text "stylized as facebook" from the top. The reason is that although the logo uses "facebook" in all other cases that I've seen Facebook themselves use "Facebook" in running text (such as in their web page titles, about us etc) as opposed to Adidas which always appears to use "adidas" when referring to its self. the lower case "f" in the logo could be mentioned in the article somewhere describing the logo but the lower case "f" doesn't need mentioning right at the top as stylism. On a similar note, note that Wikipedia's logo is in all caps but we otherwise use "Wikipedia" in running text and the article doesn't say "Stylized as WIKIPEDIA" though it is mentioned at Wikipedia logo. Crouch, Swale (talk) 19:16, 28 June 2021 (UTC)

I've gone ahead and removed it. -- Calidum 20:04, 28 June 2021 (UTC)

Thanks, I see it was added this time last year. Crouch, Swale (talk) 16:06, 29 June 2021 (UTC)

Censorship of Palestinian apartheid content during the Israeli bombing of Gaza

Hi, can we mention in the controversies section about the claims that social media companies were pressured by the Israeli government to censor any content highlighting the atrocities by Israel? And complicit by preventing pro-Palestine content?

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20210517-digital-rights-group-slams-israeli-attempt-to-censor-palestinians-on-social-media/ https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/may/26/pro-palestine-censorship-facebook-instagram

Pandemics

I have thought that because global warming affects the world and because the current pandemics have the cases in many parts of it, they are probably related. I have written that for some posts of or a message to US President Joe Biden and the UN on Facebook in the past. However, I did not know if some people got interested in my idea as I received no replies from them.

I wanted to write my idea of covering the faces to prevent infections. It is to create a helmet-like equipment with a small air purifier inside it. In this way, I think that the infections in many cases could be avoided. Indoors, we could have the air purifiers. Outdoors, we could use the helmet-like equipments. I wrote about this equipment to the US Embassy in Tokyo through Facebook many months ago, but no one seems interested in it. It might not be useful, but I have thought that it would save people. Ruby2021 (talk) 09:08, 30 August 2021 (UTC)