https://finance.yahoo.com/news/facebook-now-bans-white-nationalism-165240250.html

was laid bare in training documents for Facebook content moderators that leaked to Motherboard. Experts and anti-hate groups critical of the policy pointed out that these ideologies overlap, and that the distinction was a technicality. More recently, Facebook came under fire for its slow response to the deadly Christchurch, New Zealand mosque shooting, whose perpetrator, a white supremacist, livestreamed the attack on the platform." data-reactid="23">Last year, this distinction was laid bare in training documents for Facebook content moderators that leaked to Motherboard. Experts and anti-hate groups critical of the policy pointed out that these ideologies overlap, and that the distinction was a technicality. More recently, Facebook came under fire for its slow response to the deadly Christchurch, New Zealand mosque shooting, whose perpetrator, a white supremacist, livestreamed the attack on the platform.

Facebook said that over the past three months it has been talking with “members of civil society and academics who are experts in race relations around the world,” and who confirmed that white nationalism and separatism could not be treated separately from white supremacy and hate groups. “Going forward, while people will still be able to demonstrate pride in their ethnic heritage, we will not tolerate praise or support for white nationalism and separatism,” the post reads.