Facebook’s new rules come down against white nationalism, separatism
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/03/facebooks-new-rules-come-down-against-white-nationalism-separatism/
Facebook's terms-of-service agreement will be updated next week with a new anti-hate rule: any content that falls in the space of "white nationalism" or "white separatism" will be banned. The update, from a Wednesday Facebook news post titled "Standing Against Hate," comes nearly two weeks after the platform was used to widely share live video of a mosque shooting in Christchurch, New Zealand.
It also comes well after public outcry against Facebook's existing policy, which wagged a finger at "white supremacy" but counted the other aforementioned types of speech as acceptable. Today's news post acknowledges that previous divide in its policy by saying it wanted to leave room for "national pride" types of speech that exist across the world.