Facebook Removes Persecuted Rabbi’s Post about Farrakhan #GreatAwakening
Facebook wants to be militant about removing “hate speech.” However, it keeps deleting the wrong content.
According to Jewish Journal, a Rabbi's harrowing account of harassment by Rev. Louis Farrakhan supporters appears to have been removed “mistakenly” from Facebook. The viral post has since been restored after public outcry.
On Thursday, November 1, Rabbi Avri Mlotek wrote a post on Facebook where he described harassment by Farrakhan supporters on his evening commute home. The next day, he found that his post had been removed, supposedly because it “violated community standards.” After some backlash from media organizations the post was restored. One Facebook spokesperson claimed, “The post was mistakenly removed by a member of our review team after we received reports that content on the page violated our Community Standards.”
Whether it was a faulty hate-speech detecting algorithm or a reviewer who removed this post, clearly Facebook was unable to make the distinction between a statement of hatred versus somebody recounting quotes of hatred they had faced. This is a common issue across numerous social media platforms. Candace Owens had a famous example where she, to demonstrate the hypocrisy of liberal censors, took the anti-white tweets from New York Time’s recent hire Sarah Jeong, and made them about other ethnicities. Ironically, she was suspended for this. Farrakhan himself still has a Twitter, even though he openly dehumanizes White and Jewish people.
Rabbi Avri Mlotek’s account of the harassment itself is horrific. He noted how he was referred to as a “Fake Jew” and an “impostor.” Mlotek also claimed, “This man told me repeatedly that Israel was not mine, that I was a fraud, and that Jews are responsible for the mess we find ourselves in today in the city of New York and all over the world.” The man then reportedly lifted an image of Farrakhan, insisting he was a more legitimate [Israelite] than Rabbi Mlotek. He was then supported by a second man raising a “Black Power” salute.
Farrakhan, founder of the Nation of Islam, has been in the headlines frequently as a person who speaks with frequent anti-American and anti-Israeli rhetoric with statements such as “I’m not an anti-Semite. I’m anti-Termite.” or most recently leading a “Death to America” chant during a high-profile visit to Iran. Farrakhan has had offensive posts removed from Facebook, but has not been suspended or banned from the platform for his blatant anti-semitic statements.
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