New: Facebook has removed the pages of right-wing group Patriot Prayer (violent social militia org)

[Mrs. Overall]

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Davey Alba
@daveyalba

New: Facebook has removed the pages of right-wing group Patriot Prayer. FB spox tells me, “They were removed as part of our ongoing efforts to remove Violent Social Militias from our platform.”

[Karadeniz]

1. About time.

[genxlib]

2. Better late than never

But I would say the horse is out of the barn at this point.

[lostnfound]

3. To cover up their stupidity and irresponsibility? Nt

[Eugene]

4. The Guardian adds this...

Facebook removes Patriot Prayer pages in bid to halt 'violent social militias'

The company acted the day after two people were shot and killed at protests in the city, which broke out in response to the police shooting of a Black man earlier that week.

Facebook designated the shooting a “mass shooting” – a ruling that invoked the company’s ban on praise, support, or representation of a mass shooter or the shooting itself. And yet those types of posts continued to be spread widely on the platform despite the ban, according to a Guardian analysis of CrowdTangle data.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/sep/05/facebook-removes-patriot-prayer-pages-in-bid-to-halt-violent-social-militias

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Short of a body count, what does it take for Facebook to act responsibly?