on a New Zealand mosque on Facebook, the social media giant says it’s banning all content praising, supporting and representing white nationalism and white separatism.
Facebook has long restricted expressions of white supremacy on its platform but content related to white nationalism and white separatism had been allowed because “we were thinking about broader concepts of nationalism and separatism — things like American pride and Basque separatism, which are an important part of people’s identity,” the companyFacebook said, however, that its thinking on this issue had fundamentally shifted following three months of conversations with civil society groups and...
It’s unclear how effective the policy change will be. People expressing white nationalist views often don’t use explicit language, Becca Lews, affiliate researcher at Data & Society,Facebook said it was “deeply committed” to combatting hate on its platform and said it would continue to work to “improve our technologies, evolve our policies and work with experts who can bolster our own efforts” in this area.
“This should have happened long ago. For too long, Facebook has allowed hate speech ― and the violence that it can inspire ― to propagate on its platform,”Kristen Clarke, president of the National Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, celebrated Facebook’s policy shift as an “important victory” against hate. The legal advocacy group had spent months lobbying Facebook on this issue.
Are other forms of collectivism still cool?