On the Daily Dot:
The Facebook pages of Richard Spencer, the alt-right leader who was famously punched in the face last year, have been suspended.
The pages for the National Policy Institute, a lobbying group of sorts for white nationalists, and Spencer's online magazine "altright.com," vanished on Friday after Vice sent the social network an inquiry about hate groups. They had a combined following of almost 15,000 followers.
The action was taken just days after Mark Zuckerberg emphasized during his testimony before Congress that Facebook does not allow hate speech. But it wasn't until Vice flagged the accounts that Facebook suspended them. The social network said in a statement that it identifies violating pages using human monitors, algorithms, and partnerships with organizations.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Captival on Saturday April 14 2018, @07:07PM (2 children)
So Facebook doesn't allow hate groups, but let this one slide until "the media" reported it? That makes a whole lot of sense.
And considering this is Vice Media [variety.com] we're talking about, the people doing the reporting are much worse criminals [narcity.com] than the people they're pointing fingers at. Where's their ban?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 14 2018, @07:11PM (1 child)
Sexual harassment is an expression of love, not hate.
(Score: 2, Touché) by SanityCheck on Saturday April 14 2018, @07:21PM
If you think they rape their employees, you should see what they do to the truth.