Facebook banned about 1,000 military social movements
Developed Facebook’s platform has at least 986 groups across its own list of banned “military social movements,” according to internal company documents.
The documents of the Facebook platform’s secret blacklist of dangerous individuals and organizations indicate the extent of the militia organization across the platform, which is something I fought him company in August of 2020.
To fend off accusations that it helps terrorists spread propaganda, the platform has for many years banned users from speaking freely about people and groups it says promote violence.
The restrictions appear to date back to 2012, when concern about terrorist recruitment arose online. The platform added to its community standards a ban on “organizations with a history of violent terrorist or criminal activities”.
This modest rule has since swelled into what is known as the Dangerous Persons and Organizations Policy, a comprehensive set of restrictions on what the nearly 3 billion Facebook users can say about an ever-growing list of entities considered out of the ordinary.
But as with other attempts to curtail personal liberties in the name of combating terrorism, the politics of dangerous individuals and organizations has become an unaccountable system that disproportionately punishes certain communities, critics say.
It was created based on a blacklist of more than 4,000 people and groups. Including politicians, writers, charities, hospitals, hundreds of musicals and historical figures who are long dead.
A group of legal researchers and civil liberties advocates called on the company to publish the list so users know when they risk deleting a post or suspending an account for praising someone on the list.
The company refused to do so, claiming it was putting employees at risk and allowing banned entities to circumvent the policy.
Despite the platform’s claims that disclosing the list would put its employees at risk. The Facebook Content Supervisory Board has officially recommended that all of them be published on multiple occasions. This is because the information is in the public interest.
Militarized social movements are part of the larger “dangerous individuals and organizations” list across the platform. The term refers to armed groups that promote armed conflict, as well as groups that support violence or looting during protests.
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Facebook has fought militia organization since 2020
In practice, it appears to be consist Largely from right-wing militias with some left-wing, anarchist or anti-government organizations in general.
The list of “dangerous individuals” on the platform also includes white supremacist gangs and hate groups such as the Ku Klux Klan. and branches of al-Qaeda and other global terrorist organizations.
All such organizations are prohibited from maintaining pages, groups, or accounts via the Service. Categories are categorized into classes. Level 1 includes hate groups and terrorism, and users of the platform cannot express praise or support in any way for them.
Level 2 includes violent non-state actors such as armed insurgents who can only be commended for their nonviolent activities. Military social movements are categorized as Level 3, which do not have similar restrictions on how users can discuss them.
In October 2020, the platform indicated that it had identified 600 socio-military movements. It removed about 2,400 pages and 14,200 associated groups. The company also said it has removed 1,700 pages and 5,600 groups linked to QAnon, which has been designated a military social movement. But it is not an organized group.
