{"id":11761,"date":"2021-07-23T02:08:34","date_gmt":"2021-07-23T02:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/socialpanic.org\/?p=11761"},"modified":"2021-07-23T02:08:34","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T02:08:34","slug":"facebook-cracks-down-on-discussing-hoes-in-gardening-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2021\/07\/23\/facebook-cracks-down-on-discussing-hoes-in-gardening-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook cracks down on discussing &#8216;hoes&#8217; in gardening group"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Facebook&#8217;s censors are digging deep &#8212; flagging the word &#8220;hoe&#8221; in a western New York gardening group because they apparently confused the tool for a disparaging term for women.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/07\/20\/facebook-cracks-down-on-discussing-hoes-in-gardening-group\/\">Facebook cracks down on discussing &#8216;hoes&#8217; in gardening group<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>This is yet another example of why Facebook&#8217;s much vaunted use of &#8220;AI&#8221; to handle censorship is a failure and will always be a failure.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, social media is becoming much more a platform for censorship than the spread of propaganda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook censors posts referencing the garden tool known as a &#8220;hoe&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-censorship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}