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LINK Facebook profits from White supremacy - The Washington Post

Last year, a Facebook page administrator put out a clarion call for new followers: They were looking for “the good ole boys and girls from the south who believe in white [supremacy].” The page — named Southern Brotherhood — was live on Tuesday afternoon and riddled with photos of swastikas and expressions of white power.

Facebook has long banned content referencing white nationalism. But a plethora of hate groups still populate the site, and the company boosts its revenue by running ads on searches for these pages.

A new report from the Tech Transparency Project, a nonprofit tech watchdog, found 119 Facebook pages and 20 Facebook groups associated with white supremacy organizations. Of 226 groups identified as white-supremacist organizations by the Anti-Defamation League, the Southern Poverty Law Center, and a leaked version of Facebook’s dangerous organizations and individuals list, more than a third have a presence on the platform, according to the study. ...

snytiger6 9 Aug 10
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And I just got a 24 hour FB jail term for saying that the Christian Nationalists would turn into the Christian Taliban if they every took complete control of the US government. BOOM, 24 hours of jail, no posts, no comments. Hate speech, my ass!

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