{"id":55183,"date":"2024-03-16T11:54:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-16T10:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=55183"},"modified":"2024-03-20T22:04:32","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T21:04:32","slug":"facebook-classifies-an-image-of-the-spanish-submarine-s-80-as-violent-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/03\/16\/facebook-classifies-an-image-of-the-spanish-submarine-s-80-as-violent-content\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook classifies an image of the Spanish submarine S-80 as 'violent content'"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Censorship on Meta's social networks (Facebook and Instagram) is reaching a degree of surrealism that already deserves an article.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/12\/02\/the-scandal-of-censorship-on-facebook-by-governments-without-going-through-justice\/\">The scandal of censorship on Facebook by governments without going through Justice<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/12\/03\/elon-musk-brings-to-light-the-daily-censorship-that-left-wing-politicians-exercised-on-twitter\/\">Elon Musk brings to light the daily censorship that left-wing politicians exercised on Twitter<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>In recent months, <strong>Contando Estrelas has been suffering from Facebook's cruelty with its publications<\/strong>, with constant complaints against what the technology of that social network (that is, the algorithms they use to detect possible infractions) interprets as \"violent content.\" In the last few hours, <strong>Facebook has marked me like this<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/03\/12\/el-video-de-navantia-presentando-el-nuevo-submarino-espanol-s-80-al-mercado-exterior\/\">a post about the Spanish submarine S-80 made on March 12<\/a>. In its notice, Facebook tells me the following:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Our technology has shown that this post is similar to others that <strong>violate our Community Guidelines on Violent and Graphic Content<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>We don't allow people on Facebook to share <strong>content that depicts graphic violence<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is the screenshot of the report:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53590664285_b519f89c63_b.jpg\" style=\"width:661px; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0; border:2px solid #252525;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The consequence of Facebook tagging a post like this is that <strong>your followers will see it lower on their walls, or perhaps not see it at all<\/strong>. For a website with a certain audience, as is the case of Contando Estrelas, this represents <strong>a considerable loss of visits<\/strong>. Additionally, people who share those posts receive similar notifications, so <strong>Facebook is discouraging people from sharing posts from this website<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, <strong>I have asked for a review<\/strong>. It's been ten hours and I'm still waiting for that review. Before they were relatively fast. Now they take longer and longer. I have to keep an eye on these reports every day, because lately they happen almost daily. <strong>The sequence is always the same: Facebook reports a publication to me, I ask for a review and they always agree with me<\/strong>, and the next day or two days it reports another publication to me. <strong>And start again.<\/strong> This means spending precious time every day asking Facebook for reviews of purely absurd censorship. <strong>Let's see more examples.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53589344527_76ab910201_b.jpg\" style=\"width:661px; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0; border:2px solid #252525;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In December I published this entry with <b>an image of a painting by the great Spanish painter Augusto Ferrer-Dalmau<\/b>, about the famous Miracle of Empel. As you can see in this screenshot, <strong>Facebook interpreted it as \"violent content.\"<\/strong> Why? No idea.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53590424948_1cc6918dc9_b.jpg\" style=\"width:661px; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0; border:2px solid #252525;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Also in December, <strong>Facebook considered this image of the 23-F coup d'\u00e9tat \"violent content.\"<\/strong> Obviously, the image does not show a hippie concert, but it is <strong>a photo about a historical event<\/strong>. Is this also a reason for censorship?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53590537274_383407f9df_b.jpg\" style=\"width:661px; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0; border:2px solid #252525;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>In early February, what bothered Facebook was this photo of a Leopard 2A4.<\/strong> The tank doesn't even appear firing. Maybe Facebook's algorithm thought it was going too fast, or maybe it just hates all photos of tanks.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53590664295_e1281bb0aa_b.jpg\" style=\"width:661px; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0; border:2px solid #252525;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On February 19, I received <strong>a new censorship for this famous photo of the Normandy Landings<\/strong>. This is, once again, a historical photo. Is it not possible to post these types of images on Facebook without suffering censorship?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53590537269_d21106ba58_b.jpg\" style=\"width:661px; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0; border:2px solid #252525;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On March 14, <strong>Facebook was upset by this photo of one of the trains from the 11-M attacks.<\/strong> It is a photo that has appeared in many media outlets. I tried to choose a photo in which no corpses were seen, not even covered with sheets, but even then they censor you.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53590537264_3a0196239e_b.jpg\" style=\"width:661px; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0; border:2px solid #252525;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The most ridiculous thing is what happened to me this week. Facebook also considered \"violent content\" <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/03\/14\/el-polo-sur-de-inaccesibilidad-el-punto-mas-remoto-de-la-antartida-y-su-pequeno-dictador\/\">this image of an Antarctic landscape that I published this Thursday<\/a>. What is there in this image that can even remotely be interpreted as violence?<\/p>\n<p>In 2018, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.es\/play\/cine\/noticias\/abci-censura-facebook-usuarios-ideas-conservadoras-documental-asegura-si-201811220218_noticia.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a documentary denounced that Facebook's algorithm is manipulated to suppress users with conservative ideas<\/a>, that is, those who have an ideological line that does not coincide with that of the owner of that network social, Mark Zuckerberg. <strong>Contando Estrelas is a conservative-liberal, Catholic and pro-life blog.<\/strong> It has everything to be the target of that teaching. There are the examples, in case anyone has doubts. <strong>My question for Facebook is: do left-wing websites suffer from as many erroneous reports as this blog?<\/strong> Or is it just a coincidence?<\/p>\n<p>+ UPDATED 7:58 p.m.: <strong>Facebook once again censors another of my entries, this time for an image of a cemetery.<\/strong> Does Facebook consider crosses as \"violent content? I have asked for a review again, without They have still answered all the questions I asked for last night.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53591476916_ba78a2b8af_b.jpg\" style=\"width:661px; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0; border:2px solid #252525;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>Main photo: Armada Espa\u00f1ola.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Censorship on Meta&#8217;s social networks (Facebook and Instagram) is reaching a degree of surrealism that already deserves an article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19534,11545,10395],"tags":[6785,12063,747,1280,8637],"class_list":["post-55183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense-portada-eng","category-navy","category-social-media","tag-augusto-ferrer-dalmau","tag-censorship","tag-facebook","tag-mark-zuckerberg","tag-serie-s-80"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-12 08:57:12","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}