To combat hate speech, Facebook has announced that it’s looking to clamp down on white nationalism and white separatism on its own platform starting next week.
To combat hate speech, Facebook has announced that it’s looking to clamp down on white nationalism and white separatism on its own platform starting next week.
In practical terms, this means that Facebook will ban any „praise, support, and representation of white nationalism and separatism“ on the platform once the policy goes into effect. Searching for terms that are generally associated with white nationalism or separatism like „Heil Hitler“ will be prohibited and instead will link to the Life After Hate organization which provides educational resources and support for ex-white supremacists.
Our policies have long prohibited hateful treatment of people based on characteristics such as race, ethnicity or religion — and that has always included white supremacy. We didn’t originally apply the same rationale to expressions of white nationalism and separatism 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.
