NEW YORK (JTA) – Facebook announced that it would ban posts about Jews controlling the world among several other efforts to combat hate speech.
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The announcement comes following a monthlong boycott of advertising on Facebook spearheaded by a coalition of civil rights groups led by the Anti-Defamation League. More than 1,000 companies participated in the boycott, which was meant to protest Facebook’s lack of action against hate speech.
In an announcement Tuesday issued by Guy Rosen, the social media platform’s vice president of integrity, Facebook said it would ban posts about Jews controlling the world, as well as those containing blackface. Rosen also wrote that Facebook has removed 23 “banned organizations” from the platform since October, half of which were white supremacist.
Facebook also announced the launch of a Diversity Advisory Council, but did not provide details on what the council would address.
Responding to the announcement, an ADL spokesperson called the changes “welcome yet overdue.”
“It’s distressing that it took this long for the platform to crack down on these particular forms of hate, when it’s quite obvious they should not have been allowed to proliferate in the first place,” the ADL statement said. “It’s equally as disturbing that Facebook still doesn’t view Holocaust denial as violative of their terms of service.”
what’s with Iran’s and Hezbollah’s tweets and comments????????????/
Facebook has shown over the last 12 years that is has no interest whatsoever in removing or banning anti-Semitic content. The vast majority of this comes from the muslim world and a quick glance demonstrates that Facebook has done little or nothing to combat Islamic anti-semitism. Unfortunately Facebook supports the very groups and ideas that are most likely to lead to a violent end of Jewish life in America and bans those groups and ideas that are most likely to prevent such tragic occurrence. Remember – genocide has never succeeded against an armed population.