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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhite nationalists are openly operating on Facebook. The company won't act
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/nov/21/facebook-white-nationalists-ban-vdare-red-ice?fbclid=IwAR1GfeBy_RMDYdALc_VoFXpvJluoVGnKVNd7wNKiecerfJHr-4oz5PIVbCE~snip
A Guardian analysis found longstanding Facebook pages for VDare, a white nationalist website focused on opposition to immigration; the Affirmative Right, a rebranding of Richard Spencers blog Alternative Right, which helped launch the alt-right movement; and American Free Press, a newsletter founded by the white supremacist Willis Carto, in addition to multiple pages associated with Red Ice TV. Also operating openly on the platform are two Holocaust denial organizations, the Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust and the Institute for Historical Review.
Theres no question that every single one of these groups is a whitenationalist group, said Heidi Beirich, the director of the Southern Poverty Law Centers (SPLC) Intelligence Project, after reviewing the Guardians findings. Its not even up for debate. Theres really no excuse for not removing this material.
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Facebook declined to take action against any of the pages identified by the Guardian. A company spokesperson said: We are investigating to determine whether any of these groups violate our policies against organized hate. We regularly review organizations against our policy and any that violate will be banned permanently.
The spokesperson also said that Facebook does not ban Holocaust denial, but does work to reduce the spread of such content by limiting the distribution of posts and preventing Holocaust-denying groups and pages from appearing in algorithmic recommendations. Such limitations are being applied to the two Holocaust denial groups identified by the Guardian, the spokesperson said.
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White nationalists are openly operating on Facebook. The company won't act (Original Post)
JimGinPA
Nov 2019
OP
Correct. Here's an account that hosts the NZ shooter manifesto. I reported it every way I could.
NCLefty
Nov 2019
#4
Greed is the god of facebook. You matter only as a feeder of that greed.
Hermit-The-Prog
Nov 2019
#7
PSPS
(13,614 posts)1. "The spokesperson also said that Facebook does not ban Holocaust denial"
Why would they? Lots of rubles (and, maybe soon, supposedly anonymous bitcoins) flowing into zuckerberg's pocket.
Blue Owl
(50,494 posts)2. Thanks, Fuckkkerberg
n/t
Karadeniz
(22,572 posts)3. Guess being rich has corrupted his values.
NCLefty
(3,678 posts)4. Correct. Here's an account that hosts the NZ shooter manifesto. I reported it every way I could.
Still it sits there...
It's in the photos of this account that has over 22,000 followers and growing. If you scroll down to the small white pages of the document labeled "The Great Replacement," that's what I'm talking about but there's gobs of other racist shit there.
https://www.facebook.com/TrumpMAGALisaLynn/photos?lst=100008275002913%3A100021973869486%3A1574493238
Feel free to report it yourself. Maybe it will help. I may have reported so many people that Facebook just trashes my reports now. I can't think of any other innocent reason for allowing the spread of this garbage.
Cha
(297,655 posts)5. Blood is on mark zuckerberg's hands.
demmiblue
(36,885 posts)6. K&R
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,414 posts)7. Greed is the god of facebook. You matter only as a feeder of that greed.