Facebook bans praise of white nationalism
Reuters | Mar 29, 2019, 05:15 ISTFacebook on Wednesday banned praise, support and representation of white nationalism and white separatism, a move that drew qualified approval from New Zealand where a massacre of 50 people in mosques was live streamed earlier this month.
Facebook has beefed up its content monitoring teams and taken down event pages that were used to promote and organise rallies by white supremacist groups. The policy will be enforced next week, it said in a blog post, and will apply to both its core Facebook app and Instagram.
Facebook has long banned white supremacy under its rules on "hateful" content, but did not previously consider white nationalist content to be explicitly racist. It would also start connecting people who search for terms associated with white supremacy to an organisation called Life After Hate.
Facebook has beefed up its content monitoring teams and taken down event pages that were used to promote and organise rallies by white supremacist groups. The policy will be enforced next week, it said in a blog post, and will apply to both its core Facebook app and Instagram.
Facebook has long banned white supremacy under its rules on "hateful" content, but did not previously consider white nationalist content to be explicitly racist. It would also start connecting people who search for terms associated with white supremacy to an organisation called Life After Hate.
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