Facebook has finally banned Louis Farrakhan, Alex Jones and other extremists for hate speech and inciting violence
File photo: Black supremacist Louis Farrakhan ,and radical right wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones were both banned by Facebook for hate speech.
Facebook also said it is banning Paul Nehlen, an avowed white supremacist who ran for Congress in 2018, and black supremacist Louis Farrakhan, who has preached black separatism and referred to Jews as "termites." Hours after his account disappeared, videos of Farrakhan were still visible on Instagram among the 17,000 posts with the hashtag #louisfarrakhan, including a video where he defends his descriptions of Jews.Facebook announced the ban before removing the affected accounts, giving the account owners time to redirect their thousands of followers to other channels before the accounts disappeared, as captured in screenshots by BuzzFeed journalist Ryan Mac.
Social media companies have an uneasy history with voices on the far right, struggling for years to decide how to handle extremist content even as its purveyors used the services to amass followers and catapult themselves into the mainstream.
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