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Since 2017, @juliacarriew has been identifying hate groups on Facebook and asking the company why they haven't been removed.
She's now being attacked by the Daily Stormer and others for this reporting.
Here's a thread of how Facebook has responded: https://twitter.com/juliacarriew/status/1198059516912254976?s=20
She's now being attacked by the Daily Stormer and others for this reporting.
Here's a thread of how Facebook has responded: https://twitter.com/juliacarriew/status/1198059516912254976?s=20
In July 2017, just weeks before Charlottesville, @juliacarriew sent Facebook a list of 175 active hate groups on the platform--many of them closed neo-Nazi, neo-Confederate, and white nationalist groups.
Facebook removed nine of the 175: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jul/31/extremists-neo-nazis-facebook-groups-social-media-islam
Facebook removed nine of the 175: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jul/31/extremists-neo-nazis-facebook-groups-social-media-islam
Organizers of the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville used a Facebook event to recruit attendees.
After Heather Heyer was murdered + 19 other people seriously injured in a car attack, Facebook began to remove some of the groups involved: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/aug/16/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-charlottesville-response
After Heather Heyer was murdered + 19 other people seriously injured in a car attack, Facebook began to remove some of the groups involved: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/aug/16/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-charlottesville-response
Some of the hate groups Facebook suddenly removed after Charlottesville were ones that @juliacarriew had flagged to Facebook, and that the company had deemed perfectly acceptable, just weeks before: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/aug/16/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-charlottesville-response
A year after Charlottesville, @juliacarriew checked to see if the groups and people Facebook had removed had made it back on the platform.
Many were: Jason Kessler, the Unite the Right Organizer. The neo-Confederate League of the South. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/25/charlottesville-white-supremacists-big-tech-failure-remove
Many were: Jason Kessler, the Unite the Right Organizer. The neo-Confederate League of the South. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/25/charlottesville-white-supremacists-big-tech-failure-remove
Once again, Facebook removed a few hate groups when @juliacarriew identified them and flagged them.
Once again, they also chose not to take action against blatant white supremacists, including accounts linked to David Duke, the former Ku Klux Klan leader https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/25/charlottesville-white-supremacists-big-tech-failure-remove
Once again, they also chose not to take action against blatant white supremacists, including accounts linked to David Duke, the former Ku Klux Klan leader https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/25/charlottesville-white-supremacists-big-tech-failure-remove
In early 2019, after a white supremacist terror attack on mosques in New Zealand that, this time, claimed the lives of 50 people, Facebook finally updated its hate policy ban "white nationalism" & "white separatism."
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/mar/27/facebook-white-nationalism-hate-speech-ban
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/mar/27/facebook-white-nationalism-hate-speech-ban
8 months after Facebook finally banned "white nationalism," @juliacarriew investigated whether there were still blantant white nationalist groups on Facebook.
There were.
Facebook declined to take action against any of them: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/nov/21/facebook-white-nationalists-ban-vdare-red-ice
There were.
Facebook declined to take action against any of them: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/nov/21/facebook-white-nationalists-ban-vdare-red-ice
Now, because of her years of reporting on Facebook's failure to enforce its own policies against hate, @juliacarriew is being personally attacked by a white nationalist group she wrote about, and by the Daily Stormer: https://twitter.com/juliacarriew/status/1198275930625462272
As Facebook has been trying to push back against @SachaBaronCohen, claiming "Hate speech is actually banned on our platform," @juliacarriew, a journalist who's reported for years on hate speech on Facebook, is getting personally attacked with racist slurs: https://twitter.com/donie/status/1198019673578770432
