"There is no place for hate in our community," Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote in aposton the site. "That's why we've always taken down any post that promotes or celebrates hate crimes or acts of terrorism -- including what happened in Charlottesville. With the potenti...
Facebook has removed one of the largest public QAnon groups for violating the company’s policies on misinformation, bullying, hate speech, and harassment,Reutersreported.The group, called Official Q/Qanon had almost 200,000 members, was deleted after numerous posts were taken down. A Facebook s...
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 6 (Xinhua) -- Facebook announced Monday that it has removed four pages of U.S. conspiracy theorist Alex Jones for violation of its policy that bans extremist behaviors including hate speech. "Earlier today, we removed four Pages belonging to Alex Jones for repeatedly posti...
Villainizing Critics of Israeli’s Crimes This past April a politically astute Native American historian, Tom “Big Warrior” Watts, was banned from Facebook for supposedly posting anti-Semitic hate speech.
Facebook has been under pressure for several months to take action on the problem, especially after civic and rights groups in Myanmar said in April that it had failed to adequately act against online hate speech that incited violence against the country's Muslim minorities, neg...
Facebook’s keen eye for quality often results in bans targeting dropshippers marketing inferior products. But hey, just because you’re a dropshipper doesn’t mean you can’t get your hands on the actual goods, right? Consider requesting samples from your suppliers or purchasing the products ...
The announcement comes just as Apple announced it had removed the entire library of five out of six Infowars’ podcasts, saying the video and audio files had violated its policy against hate speech. Facebook cited the same reasons. “We have taken it down for glorifying violence, which viola...
"While we were too slow to act, we're now making progress — with better technology to identify hate speech, improved reporting tools, and more people to review content." In addition to the bans, Facebook said it had removed 46 pages and 12 accounts for "engaging in coordinated ...
“This is very troubling behavior from the world’s largest social network,” Strazzeri added. “Not only are they obviously ratcheting up their algorithms to target mainstream, conservative content and labeling it as hate speech, but they are now completely blocking our posts from public view. ...
Although Facebook has had a ban on hate speech for a while, it has now expanded its definition of the term. Under Facebook's new Community Standards, Facebook will remove any posts involving blackface and anti-Semitic stereotypes. Facebook's War on Hate Speech Facebook's quarterly Community...