For Political Cartoonists, the Irony Was That Facebook Didn’t Recognize Irony
3/31/21
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from The New York Times,
3/19/21; updated 3/22/21:
As Facebook has become more active at moderating political speech, it has had trouble dealing with satire.
But satire kept popping up as a blind spot. In 2019 and 2020, Facebook often dealt with far-right misinformation sites that used “satire” claims to protect their presence on the platform, Mr. Brooking said. [Updated March 22, 2021: The Babylon Bee, a right-leaning satirical site, has feuded with Facebook and the fact-checking site Snopes over whether the site published misinformation or satire.]
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