Other changes coming to Facebook include the creation of a Voting Information Center that will share information on voting, and additional measures to fight voter suppression such as the quick removal of false claims about polling conditions in the 72 hours before Election Day and banning posts tha...
Facebook announced a new set of policies on Friday, including one that expands the definition of banned hate speech on its advertising network.
You probably already know the most common reasons why Facebook can suspend a page like hate speech, threats, spam and so on. But here are some less common actions that’ll get you blocked on Facebook for sure. 1. Follow suspicious groups or add suspicious people to the friends list Havin...
Facebook is censoring PragerU videos for violating its speech codes that prohibit so-called “hate speech” and shadow banning its posts, PragerU wrote on Twitter Friday. “We’re being heavily censored on @Facebook. Our last 9 posts are reaching 0 of our 3 million followers. At least two...
Facebook’s changes include labeling posts regarding voting access, flagging posts that target immigrants, banning members of the far-right antigovernmentBoogaloo movementand placing warnings on hateful or false posts from public figures that the network still feels are newsworthy. ...
In an unusual move, many employees have taken to Twitter to publicly criticize the wayFacebook is handling debatesaround hate speech, freedom of expression, and the moral responsibility of platforms to moderate the content that appears on them. ...
from their platform, and not another knee-jerk response to pressure from members of Congress and the public.” The ADL is one of the founders of the Stop Hate for Profit campaign, which organized an advertiser boycott of Facebook aimed at spurring the company to crack down on hate speech....
claim that social media networks are "shadow banning" Conservatives (making it harder algorithmically to find them). The whole thing could just be a smoke screen to divert attention from something else Republicans are planning to do, or it could be leading up to outright attacks on the social...
I've struggled with the tension between standing for free expression and the harm caused by minimizing or denying the horror of the Holocaust," he wrote. "My own thinking has evolved as I've seen data showing an increase in anti-Semitic violence, as have our wider policies on hate spe...
YANGON, Myanmar —Facebook said Monday that it is banning Myanmar's powerful military chief, Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, and 19 other individuals and organizations from its site to prevent the spread of hate and misinformation. The social media giant has been heavily criticized...