Facebook Hosts Anti-Muslim Groups Despite Zuckerberg Telling Congress the Platform Doesn't Tolerate Hate
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/pax8en/facebook-hosts-anti-muslim-groups-despite-zuckerberg-telling-congress-the-platform-doesnt-tolerate-hate Muslim Advocates, a civil rights advocacy group focused on Muslim issues, was happy to hear Zuckerberg promise to run hate groups off of Facebook and even more happy to hear of Spencer's removal. But it doesn't think Facebook has gone far enough. "In December of this past year, we sent [Facebook] a list of 26 groups. At least 24 of them are still up," Madihha Ahussain, Special Counsel for Anti-Muslim Bigotry for Muslim Advocates, told me over the phone. A Facebook spokesperson confirmed to Motherboard that the company has been in contact with Muslim Advocates and that Facebook uses "a combination of signals to determine whether an individual or entity should be designated a hate organization". Ahussain told me Muslim Advocates has been talking with Facebook for years about how to handle hate groups on its platform. Of the 26 names on the list, 21 appear on the Southern Poverty Law Center's list of anti-Muslim hate groups. - - - --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): https://www.vortex.com/lauren Lauren's Blog: https://lauren.vortex.com Google Issues Mailing List: https://vortex.com/google-issues Founder: Network Neutrality Squad: https://www.nnsquad.org PRIVACY Forum: https://www.vortex.com/privacy-info Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: https://www.pfir.org/pfir-info Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Google+: https://google.com/+LaurenWeinstein Twitter: https://twitter.com/laurenweinstein Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 _______________________________________________ nnsquad mailing list https://lists.nnsquad.org/mailman/listinfo/nnsquad
