Facebook Bans Blackface Posts, Anti-Semitic Conspiracies in Updated Hate Speech Policy

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorFacebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg conceded in a town-hall meeting with employees this week that the social giant fell down on the job in failing to remove a militia group’s “call to arms” that had urged followers to engage in violence amid the unrest in Kenosha, Wisc., following the shooting of a Black man.“It was largely an operational mistake,” Zuckerberg said regarding Facebook’s inaction on removing the “Kenosha Guard” group on the platform, even after multiple

suspended from Twitter last year for hate speech, said in a now-deleted tweet promoting the thread by a QAnon follower who advanced a conspiracy theory that Jewish people are plotting to commit genocide against gentiles and steal their property.

In order to do this a planning application has been made by the Cheadle and Gatley Eruv Committee, established by members of the Yeshurun Hebrew Congregation in Cheadle. It requests permission to erect pairs of six metre high poles strung with transparent nylon wire at 35 points around Cheadle and Gatley.

Boosie Badazz found himself out of luck this week. Hot New Hip Hop claims the rapper was banned from Instagram, and rather than take it laying down, the performing artist pleaded with the Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg, to reinstall his account.

© @Copyright HELLO! Hello! Magazine has sent a touching message to her friend and BGT co-star . Simon in a number of places after falling off his electric bike on Saturday.

pic.twitter.com/NAvUriuQRL— Amanda Holden (@AmandaHolden) August 9, 2020Along with this, the radio presenter shared a throwback photo of the pair, who became close friends when they started working together on BGT back in 2007.It seems as though Simon was one lucky man, as it was revealed that if the injury was closer to his spine then the situation could have been very dire.Speaking to the Mirror, a source said: ‘Simon fell flat on his back and the doctors say the impact missed his spinal cord

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorFacebook has shut down one of the biggest QAnon conspiracy-theory groups on its platforms, citing repeated policy violations.A Facebook representative said the group was removed for “repeatedly posting content that violated our policies,” per the BBC.

FactCheck.org, one of the fact-checking partners used by the social media platform, found that a television ad from the PAC that also ran on Facebook was false. The ad targets presumed Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, who will be facing off against Trump in the November election.According to FactCheck, the ad falsely claims that Biden “promised his party an African American Vice President.

Mark Zuckerberg, said revenue was up 11 percent to $18.69 billion and it earned $1.80 a share, up 98 percent year-on-year, as it unveiled its latest quarterly financials after the market close.Facebook was expected to report quarterly earnings of $1.39 a share and revenue of $17.4 billion, according to market data firm Refinitiv."We're glad to be able to provide small businesses the tools they need to grow and be successful online during these challenging times.

Jill Goldsmith Co-Business EditorFacebook said users hit 2.7 billion as it beat Wall Street estimates on revenue and earnings in the midst of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and a highly-public boycott by advertisers.If you didn’t get enough Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook and tech giants yesterday during hours of Congressional testimony, they’re all back today with a rat-a-tat-tat of back to back quarterly earnings that will hopefully give the best indication yet of the state of the digital ad

Rapper Wiley has insisted he is not racist as he apologised for “generalising” in a series of anti-Semitic tweets.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorTikTok CEO Kevin Mayer is hitting back at Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg, ahead of Zuckerberg’s appearance at a congressional hearing on Big Tech.The Facebook “attacks” on TikTok, which is owned by Chinese internet giant ByteDance, are “disguised as patriotism and designed to put an end to our very presence in the U.S.,” Mayer, who took over as CEO of TikTok in June after a long career at Disney, asserted in a blog post.Meanwhile, Mayer also took a swipe at

Grime star Wiley has been banned from Facebook and Instagram after launching an anti-Semitic tirade last week.The Wearing My Rolex rapper started posting antisemitic tropes on his Twitter feed on Friday, writing Jews "make me sick", repeating the trope of Jewish people controlling businesses and comparing this to the Ku Klux Klan, and insisting Israel should not be a Jewish state.Wiley has since been dropped by longtime on-and-off manager John Woolf, and Metropolitan Police officials confirmed