Facebook announces new policy against 'coordinated social harm' that may lower the bar on who gets banned - The Washington Post

Sep 16, 2021

Company officials said Thursday they needed a new policy to take action against movements that intentionally caused social harm — including violence — but didn’t rise to the designation of “dangerous organization.”.

Gleicher said the new policy allows Facebook to more easily act against the “core network” of a group that commits widespread violations

Facebook officials said the German Querdenken group, whose name translates as “lateral thinking,” has used duplicate accounts and other coordination techniques to spread covid misinformation, hate speech and incitements to violence on a broad enough scale that it merited systemic enforcement action, though it stopped short of banning the group outright