Despite Right-Wing Militant Ban, Facebook Continues To Profit On Ads That Encourage Extremist Organizations
groups from its platform. But TTP found 45 pages and eight groups associated with right-wing extremist organizations two months later. Researchers at TTP also found that Facebook had accepted a handful of ads over the last two years that were used by extremists to bolster their ranks and summon people to armed rallies.
According to TTP, 13 of the pages and groups it found have “militia” in their name, while six pages and one group were created after the company’s August ban of “militarized social movements.” The new investigation comes less than two weeks after federal and state prosecutors in Michigan revealed they had charged 14 peopleand possibly kill Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. Those individuals allegedly conspired using Facebook.
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