Facebook has finally taken right steps to stop white supremacy on its platform.On Wednesday morning Facebook announced ban on content supporting white nationalism or separatism.
From coming week Facebook and Instagram will be removing post and comments that support white nationalism.
“It’s clear that these concepts are deeply linked to organized hate groups and have no place on our services, ” the company said in a post titled “Standing Against Hate.”
Previously Facebook hadn’t banned expressions of white nationalism because it was considering the broader scope of the concept, like separatism and pride.
This news is coming after New Zealand terrorist attack, it was the right step which should have been taken way before. However, after conferring with race relations experts, Facebook decided that the rationale it applies to white supremacy also should apply to white nationalism, due to the company’s long-standing policy against hate speech on race, ethnicity or religion.
Facebook said it will apply the same artificial intelligence detection it uses to identify terrorism content for white nationalist posts.
It will detect people according to what they post or comment, it will connect people who make searches about white supremacy to organizations such as life after hate, which was founded by former violent extremists and provides education and support.
