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posted by chromas on Saturday April 14 2018, @05:56PM   Printer-friendly
from the Smells-like-censorship-or-teen-spirit dept.

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.

Also at Engadget and Vice.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 14 2018, @09:49PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 14 2018, @09:49PM (#667066)

    yeah! why cant they delete mine. its not for the wont of asking.

    oh i get it

    you have to be a jerk in this world to succeed and get what you want. works for a lot of people that way. and since its all so polarized anyway, anyone i offend if I try to get deleted will gain me friends on the other side of the political spectrum, so really its a wash.

    can i get deleted if i tell the ceo how i really feel? can i do it in person? mr spencer got punched but I am hoping to do the punching when i deliver my message.

  • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 15 2018, @12:46AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 15 2018, @12:46AM (#667101)

    you have to be a jerk in this world to succeed and get what you want.

    If that were the case then both you and I would be successful.