"Facebook chose not to act on militia complaints before Kenosha shooting" -- The Verge 8.26.20


Last week, Facebook received over 400 warnings from users about a page encouraging violence in Kenosha. What was their response? Did they shut down the page? Not until two people were shot dead by a 17-year-old white supremacist armed with an AR-15.

We cannot sit idly by when Facebook is actively ignoring warnings about imminent violence. Something is critically broken.

Join us and sign our call to Facebook: They must make fundamental reforms to address the proliferation of hate speech and calls for violence on their platform.

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Facebook's negligence is racist, and they're putting Black lives at risk by allowing their platform to remain a breeding ground for violent white supremacists. And, it's not just a problem of allowing violent content on their platform. It's also about the information their algorithms promote and how those play a role in spreading these violent and racist ideas:
- According to The New York Times' Kevin Roose, last week, the most viewed video about Jacob Blake was a video justifying the shooting.
- Praise for the shooter who murdered 2 people has been spreading across Facebook -- a fundraiser for the shooter was shared more than 17,000 times by almost 300 groups whose combined reach is almost 4 million followers.

This is a fundamental problem with the platform and if they refuse to take action and root out this toxin, we must pressure them into action.

Tell Facebook: Stop racist misinformation >>> [link removed]

Thank you for joining us in this fight,

Nicole Gill
Co-Founder and Executive Director



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