Facebook now blocking LGBT ads for being 'political'
 

Wow! So Facebook is allowing anti Gay religious ads to target Gays for "cure the Gay away" but their not allowing Gays to target their own community for things that aren't even political.

Facebook blocked a bunch of LGBTI-themed ads for being 'political'

Adverts for everything from a gay fairy tale cabaret in Las Vegas to a Spanish-language social group for Latino men were deemed political by the social media site’s monitors. This is despite none of them containing any form of advocacy or political views, according to The Washington Post.

This comes as Facebook tries to regulate the use of its site for political means after Russian-state actors were accused of using adverts to sway the 2016 US election and the UK Brexit vote. The site uses both automated and human monitors to filter out content.

Facebook’s new policy requires people using ads for political purposes register with the company. For this, the user would need to divulge a lot of personal information. This includes a driver’s license or passport, a personal home address, and the last four digits of a Social Security number.

However, their public database found that these innocuous LGBTI adverts were deemed ‘political’. This means they’d have to register with the company in order to post them. Many told The Post they didn’t know this option existed.

Facebook told the paper that the majority of these were made in error.

A shaky history with LGBTI people
Yet the company has taken steps recently that seem out of line with this desire to curb the use of politics on their site.

In August 2018, young LGBTI people were being specifically targeted by so-called ‘gay cure’ ads. When users clicked ‘why am I seeing this ad’, it said they had shown an interest in ‘gender issues’.

Once the news became public, the company took down the ad, blaming it on a mistake in the ‘micro-targeting algorithm’. However, it’s unclear how these ads were not considered political, as gay conversion therapy is illegal in many places around the world.

They also blocked and subsequently reinstated an anti-gay group on their site.

‘We are against Pinkdot in Singapore’, a group of people who oppose Singapore’s annual pride event, Pink Dot, were removed for violating the community standards.

However, the group was put back up. A Facebook spokesperson claimed that the page should not have been removed entirely, only some of its posts.

See? The pendulum always swings both ways.

The article is about being able to target the Gay demographic with Facebook ads. Anti Gay entities are being allowed to target the Gay demographic while the Pro Gay entities are being blocked from targeting their own demographic.

well the ads are for selling things... it's not a billboard.

was the gay fairy tale cabaret political by any chance? did it have any political connotations?...if so, they broke the rules and have to register...rules are rules...

Facebook is full with shit

No it wasn't political, the article states that. Facebook seems to relate the Gay sexual orientation as pornographic in a sense it's odd.

"Facebook told the paper that the majority of these were made in error."

somebody just screwed up....

More like they got caught discriminating agaon and backtracked :2 cents:

alex jones banned

"good riddance! Haha this is not censorship it's a private company they can do what they want!"

gay ads banned

"Facebook are censoring gays!"


Logic... never used by the scrambled egg brains of leftist lunatics.

I don't know much about this specific case but it does sound a little crazy.

That said, I will say the same thing I have said about all of these cases. Facebook has the right to serve or not serve an ads they want. Just like they are allowed to allow or disallow anyone they want from using their service.

Maybe they should remember history and stay a bit " closer to the closet" instead of buying adds...:2 cents:

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I have no issue but they are getting a bit more uppity....especially the Q types..

Facebook sucks . . .