Facebook will ban support for nationalism and white separatism

Facebook Inc., according to the reports, will soon ban content referring to white nationalism and white separatism, An important step to help fight against racism on the site.

A survey conducted by the technological release of the motherboard last year discovered that Facebook had banned the concept of "white supremacy", explicitly allowed others such as "white nationalism" and "white separatism". But after a violent reaction from civil rights groups, who see little distinction between the two terms and ideologies, Facebook would have decided to ban all three concepts, reported Motherboard citing two members of the group. content policy team of the company.

The problem of white nationalism on Facebook has been magnified in 2017 after a neo-Nazi demonstration in Charlottesville, Virginia, where white nationalists used the social networking site to stir up hatred and put in touch right-wing groups during a demonstration against the displacement of the statue of 39, a Confederate General.

Facebook will now ban content that includes explicit praise, mention or representation of nationalism or white separatism, reported the motherboard.

The coincidence between the terms is "So wide that we really can not make a meaningful distinction between them"said Brian Fishman, director of anti-terrorism policies on Facebook, to the motherboard.

It was not possible to contact Facebook spokespersons immediately to request comments.

The Color of Change Civil Rights advocacy group said it was "pleased to see business leaders take this milestone to update their white nationalism policy." The group also asked Twitter Inc., Google's YouTube and Amazon.com Inc. "to act urgently to curb the rise of white nationalist ideologies".