Facebook Says This Explicitly White Nationalist Video Doesn’t Break Its New Rule
Facebook vowed last week to curb hateful content on its platform by extending its policies against white supremacy to cover posts that praise white nationalism and separatism.
Now
it’s unclear what that new policy actually means, if anything. On
Tuesday, HuffPost showed a Facebook spokesperson a video on Facebook in
which prominent Canadian white nationalist Faith Goldy laments white
“replacement” and demands that Jews and people of color repay the white
European countries they’ve “invaded.”The spokesperson said that
no policy had been broken, not even the social media giant’s new policy
banning the promotion or praise of white nationalism.In a
much-discussed move last week, Facebook had issued a statement declaring
that its policies banning white supremacist ideology and hate groups
weren’t enough. The company said it would add “praise or support for
white nationalism and white separatism” to the list of things that
violate its terms of service, and noted that those rules would extend to
Instagram, which it owns.