SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook announced on Wednesday (Mar 27) it would ban praise or support for white nationalism and white separatism as part of a ...
SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook announced on Wednesday it would ban praise or support for white nationalism and white separatism as part of a stepped-up crackdown on hate speech.
The ban had not applied to some postings because it was reasoned they were expressions of broader concepts of nationalism or political independence, according to the social network. Amid pressure from governments around the world, Facebook has ramped up machine learning and artificial intelligence tools for finding and removing hateful content while remaining open to free expression.
Facebook said the new ban would not apply to topics such as American pride and Basque separatism, which"are an important part of people's identity," according to the statement.Mark Potok, a senior fellow at the Centre for Analysis of the Radical Right, believed Facebook's new ban could limit the spread of white nationalist rhetoric but doubted it would rid the world of the ideology."There are thousands of white nationalists posts on Facebook every day.
They say it poses as much of an international threat as Islamic extremism, and even more so in the United States where white nationalist attacks have outpaced those by jihadists for years.
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