Newsdeck: Facebook Bans White Nationalism in Effort to Curb Racism By Bloomberg
The social media giant’s policies have long excluded posts on white supremacy, but Facebook said it didn’t apply the same lens to expressions of white nationalism because it wanted to be able to include “broader concepts” of nationalism such as American pride and Basque separatism, which are linked to people’s identity.
The problem of white nationalism on Facebook was magnified in 2017 after a deadly neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, where white nationalists used the social networking site as a way to fuel hatred and to connect far-right groups in a protest of the removal of a Confederate statue. The killer responsible for the deaths of 50 people in New Zealand earlier this month also used Facebook to post a racist manifesto before recording the massacre at two mosques live on the platform.
Facebook also acknowledged that it needs to get “better and faster” at identifying and taking down hate from its sites. Machine learning and artificial intelligence help, but the company said “we know we have a lot more work to do.” The company will begin enforcing the new policy beginning next week.
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