Facebook bans extremist leaders Louis Farrakhan, Alex Jones, Milo for being ‘dangerous’
 

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Facebook today removed Louis Farrakhan, Alex Jones, Paul Nehlen, Milo Yiannopoulos, Paul Joseph Watson, Laura Loomer, and Infowars from Facebook and Instagram, saying their accounts violated its policies against dangerous individuals and organizations. They will be prohibited from creating new accounts, although Facebook and Instagram users will continue to be able to create posts praising them and their viewpoints, the company said.



“We’ve always banned individuals or organizations that promote or engage in violence and hate, regardless of ideology,” the company said in a statement. “The process for evaluating potential violators is extensive and it is what led us to our decision to remove these accounts today.”

Infowars founder Jones was suspended from Facebook last year under rules against bullying and hate speech. In February, the company removed another 22 pages associated with him and his businesses. Jones has continuously promoted fringe conspiracy theories, including baseless arguments that the Sandy Hook elementary school massacre never happened. His followers have stalked and harassed families of the victims, requiring them to move frequently and live in hiding.

Watson is an editor at Infowars and associate of Jones. Farrakhan is the leader of the Nation of Islam and is known for making inflammatory anti-Semitic and homophobic remarks. Nehlen is a white supremacist politician who had previously been banned from Twitter. Yiannopoulos is a far-right provocateur who was banned from Twitter after inspiring a wave of racist abuse. Loomer is a far-right activist who recently called Islam “a cancer on humanity” on her Instagram story. (Instagram removed the post.)

Facebook did not disclose all of the incidents that led to the accounts’ removal, saying that it had made the decisions following a period of review. The decision took into account the group’s behavior both on and offline, the company said. Factors for the removal included engaging in acts of hate or violence; calling for or carrying out acts of violence rooted in racial or ethnic prejudice; describing themselves as the follower of a hateful ideology; or using hate speech or slurs in their profiles. Having pages or groups removed previously can also lead to account removal, Facebook said.

But the company did point to some of the actions leading up to the accounts’ removal:

First in December and again in February, Jones appeared in videos with Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes. Facebook has designated McInnes as a hate figure.
Yiannopoulos publicly praised McInnes and British far-right activist Tommy Robinson, who Facebook has designated as a hate figure.
Loomer appeared with McInnes in December, and more recently declared her support for far-right activist Faith Goldy, who was banned after posting racist videos to her account.
Facebook’s move comes amid a wave of far-right violence over the past year that has included shootings in Pittsburgh; Christchurch, New Zealand; and Poway, CA. In the latter two cases, the alleged shooters announced their attentions on the hate forum 8chan and then used Facebook Live to broadcast their attacks. (The Poway shooter accidentally set his stream to private.) Facebook has come under increasing pressure to address the spread of hate speech on its platform, and to remove violent terrorist content created by murderers and their sympathizers.

Facebook began removing the accounts at 1:30P ET on Thursday, and some of them were still up at press time.

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Good. I cant stand farrakhan. Fuckin culture vulture.

Good now you right wing nuts can cry some more..

They don't allow extremists on TV why would they allow them on Facebook? Common sense

These guys are posting that Democrat politicians have syphilis and strokes etc. Total lies no proof. Just part of Russia's conspiracy network. Brain garbage

Promoting fear, hate and violence is basically right wing bread and butter...the official MO...it is no surprise any company with any integrity does not want to give them a platform to do it on...

Come now lets now go too far... we all know Facebook has no integrity...

Haha they threw in farrahkan to make it look like it wasn’t an attack on the right. This is just the beginning; they will be cleaning house before 2020.

Yes but the advertisers do...and facebook bends over for money...

Like I said before, the plan is for us to end up like China. This isn't left or right, it's beyond that. 10 yrs, 20 yrs max

Putin just signed Russia's private internet into law today :2 cents:

Yeah but why is it good to silence people? Any censorship should be discouraged. You can always counter with words. When they are silenced it turns into an echo chamber.

Exactly, so please fight for EVERYONE’s right to speech- even if you disagree with them.

The alt-right telling blatant lies online with no accountability is not "free speech" it's online terrorism & propaganda spread by a large network of bots.

It's different than some random guy saying Trump is an ass-whole I hate Trump excetera excetera.

You clearly do not understand the 1st.

You clearly don't understand agreeing to a platforms TOS. A platform is a business. you agree that your account be can be deleted at any time for any reason.

A platform has nothing to do with freedom of speech, it's a business.

Just like you can't say anything you want on television you have to follow FCC regulations and the regulations of the network you're appearing on.

I can't believe I'm having to explain this to a grown man in his 50s.

They are all also banned from Instagram.

Banned from Facebook,Instagram,Youtube

The Trifecta.

HAHA, they just threw sane Alex Jones to make it look like it wasn't an attack on the left.


See how retarded you sound?

Yeah you would make sense if 6 out of the 7 were left wing / libtards.

It's a business!

They have a right to kick anyone off the platform they want to you agree to it in the terms of service!

This has nothing to do with the First Amendment or government and freedom of speech you nitwit!

You must have never been in the adult business in the last 20 years.

Or you are you having fake outrage and virtue signaling one of the two.

Nothing to stop those banned setting up their own sites under their own legal liability same with Trump really.

Since Trump has used Twitter to threaten other counties and leaders, it means the security of your country is totally dependant on tech staff at Twitter, scary stuff.

I cant stand these huge social networks, so i hope they censor themselves into irrelevancy.

Ditto

Facebook, Twitter & Instagram suck. I like Snapchat :thumbsup

You and I both know they are trying to influence the election by getting rid of any conservative / right wing voices.

Many left wing groups violate their TOS all the time and they don't do shit.

I’m a Canadian and I understand it more than you do, clearly. It’s THEIR platform they decide who can post or not. No one is saying they can’t spew their bullshit in their own platform, they just can’t do it on Facebook.

Sure, but he always says a "lie" is not "free speech." It is. Free speech protects lies and hate speech.

You can take your false equivalency and stuff it up your tight little ass :321GFY

Wait, so the FBI found that Russia influenced the elections by abusing platforms.

Now you're bitching and moaning and complaining that the platforms are fixing the issue by removing bots & those who break the TOS.

"The left" doesn't have tens and thousands of bots spreading lies and bullshit or whacko Alex Jones people stalking dead children's parent online calling the dead children crisis actors.

Lolz political platform

I don't understand why you cheer it on. You should never applaud censorship, even if it's a private business. How would you like it if all the biggest ISPs in the USA like Comcast and Verizon decided they didn't like gay porn and blocked access to your site?

You'd wouldn't be cheering that on now would ya?

It swings both ways, moron.

You are lying

You are saying it's a 1st amendment issue

TOS you agree to with a business are NOT 1st amendment issues.

You are not wanted where normal good willed people congregate via platforms TOS.

Go on gab or another Russian platform where you guys can all talk together and bitch and moan.

You don't have a right to post whatever you want on anyone's platform you want.

You act like you haven't been in the porn industry the last 20 years and don't know what it's like for platforms to dictate what you can do on their turf... Legally.

You're making a straw man's argument and your failing at it

We all know there's going to be endless outright shit on Facebook and Instagram and Twitter anyway it's not like you're totally disappearing and being wiped from social media fucking crybaby bitch.

Not a thing to do with advertisers..

They aren't just banning AJ and others.. If you post they're content you get banned as well..

Paul Watson and Laura Loomer now banned..

Fuck facebook. They'll die a slow painful death

Facebook is pure cancer now, digusting zuckerberg prick. Cleaning out all critical voices pointing towards establishments and societies.

YOU are pure cancer

Fake nics, bullshit posts, threads that are 100% lies. Look in the mirror you are the problem. You and your fake nics have destroyed GFY with your bullshit hate and fake virtue signaling and fake outrage.

Facebook is smart to delete all you mother fucking pieces of shit.

Blocked alt-right hate fake nic troll shit post in 3.. 2.. 1...

Self abort.

Are you on your period, Nancy?

It's so nice that they're cleaning up Facebook from that alt-right hate trash and all there fake accounts. I wish GFY would do that with all these fake accounts whose only contribution is to spread hate, animosity and russian propoganda.

Nice to see they are taking out the trash

interesting turn of a phrase...

Cultists melting down because Russian bots won't be able to tell them how to think.

:1orglaugh

Milo is not an extremist, he just calls it as it is...:2 cents:

BTW Facebook,the biggest thief of personal information and propagandist, just pissed all over the 1st Ammendment....

If only I were a fake nick, that would make bladewire's statements a little more correct. Instead he's wrong about everything...:1orglaugh

They hate America, Hollywood & American culture and want the benefit of our social media platforms to trash us and try and destroy us. Stupid fascist :1orglaugh:1orglaugh