{"id":15791,"date":"2019-03-27T21:01:56","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T04:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=15791"},"modified":"2019-03-27T21:01:56","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T04:01:56","slug":"facebook-bans-white-nationalist-posts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=15791","title":{"rendered":"Facebook bans white nationalist posts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook will begin banning white nationalist or white separatist content on its platform starting next week, the social media giant\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/uhqmvzybchhsjzjhsgnccsmmcyskhyhddfcbzpkfhhqcf_pvvhmmjqjbhmmjcqdvml.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/uhqmvzybchhsjzjhsgnccsmmcyskhyhddfcbzpkfhhqcf_pvvhmmjqjbhmmjcqdvml.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1553831305434000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHggp-Yzp6-Sb5SUUgzd_kS4fN6Sg\">announced on Wednesday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook officials formally decided to ban &#8220;white nationalism&#8221; and &#8220;white separatism&#8221; on the platform at a content moderation meeting on Tuesday, a move first reported by Motherboard.<\/p>\n<p>The significant policy shift comes a year after Motherboard, a tech news outlet, reported that Facebook&#8217;s content moderation had allowed &#8220;white nationalism and separatism&#8221; on the platform, though it barred explicit &#8220;white supremacy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Facebook, in training documents for moderators last year, wrote that white nationalism &#8220;doesn&#8217;t seem to be always associated with racism (at least not explicitly),&#8221; incurring immediate backlash from civil rights groups and experts.<\/p>\n<p>Brian Fishman, Facebook&#8217;s policy director of counterterrorism, told Motherboard this week that after speaking to a range of experts Facebook has concluded &#8220;the overlap between white nationalism, [white] separatism, and white supremacy is so extensive we really can&#8217;t make a meaningful distinction between them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our own review of hate figures and organizations \u2013 as defined by our\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/erypjvdlqrrfcvcrftbqqfppqdfwrdrkkhqlvzwhrrsqz_pvvhmmjqjbhmmjcqdvml.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/erypjvdlqrrfcvcrftbqqfppqdfwrdrkkhqlvzwhrrsqz_pvvhmmjqjbhmmjcqdvml.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1553831305434000&amp;usg=AFQjCNH6qlunZxomJ2H8obhvx6xr8HGYxw\">Dangerous Individuals &amp; Organizations policy<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 further revealed the overlap between white nationalism and separatism and white supremacy,&#8221; Facebook said in a blog post announcing the change. &#8220;Going forward, while people will still be able to demonstrate pride in their ethnic heritage, we will not tolerate praise or support for white nationalism and separatism.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Experts told the social media giant that white nationalism and white separatism are linked to violence, Facebook said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook will begin banning white nationalist&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-science-tech","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15791"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15792,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15791\/revisions\/15792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}