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Study: White Supremacist Groups Are ‘Thriving’ On Facebook, Despite Extremist Ban

Study: White Supremacist Groups Are ‘Thriving’ On Facebook, Despite Extremist Ban

Study: White Supremacist Groups Are ‘Thriving’ On Facebook, Despite Extremist Ban
May 23, 2020 1 min, 11 secs

Project researchers identified 221 white supremacist groups — using information collected by Southern Poverty Law Center and the Anti-Defamation League, two of America’s most prominent anti-hate organizations — and searched for those groups on Facebook. .

Of the 113 white supremacist groups the project found on Facebook, 36% had pages or groups created by active users.

After HuffPost emailed a Facebook spokesperson about TTP’s report this week, project researchers noticed the company had removed pages for 55 white supremacist groups identified in its report.

“We are making progress keeping this activity off our platform and are reviewing content in this report,” a Facebook spokesperson said in a statement to HuffPost, adding that the company has “banned over 250 white supremacist organizations and removed 4.7 million pieces of content tied to organized hate globally in the first quarter of 2020, over 96% of which we found before someone reported it.” .

Of the 113 white supremacist organizations that the project found on Facebook, 64% had pages that had been created by Facebook itself.

An anonymous whistleblower filed a complaint with the Securities and Exchange Commission about Facebook auto-generating pages for hate and terror groups

Still, many white supremacist organizations identified in TTP’s report remain on Facebook

TTP’s report raises an alarm about the function of so-called related pages on Facebook, which it said can push users into a white supremacist echo chamber. 

But the project said its researchers were rarely redirected to Life After Hate even when searching obvious white supremacist terms.   

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