Facebook is deleting links to a viral attack on a Charlottesville victim

Facebook is deleting links to a viral attack on a Charlottesville victim

7 years ago
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https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/14/16147126/facebook-delete-viral-post-charlottesville-daily-stormer

A blog post attacking a victim of white supremacist violence in Charlottesville, VA over the weekend was shared more than 65,000 times on Facebook — but those posts are disappearing. The company said today that links to the post on the Daily Stormer website violated its community standards and would be removed automatically unless the post included a caption condemning the article or the publication, a haven for Nazis and white supremacists.

The blog post offered a series of personal attacks against Heather Heyer, who died Saturday after she was struck by a car while protesting a gathering of white supremacists. The driver, James Alex Fields Jr., is being held on charges including second-degree murder; 19 other people were injured in the attack.