CfA's August 12, 2022 Newsletter
Thank you for your continued support of Campaign for Accountability. We're dedicated to continue working to hold the powerful accountable.
This week:
- Facebook Profits from White Supremacist Groups: On Wednesday—just days before the 5-year anniversary of the white supremacist terrorist attack in Charlottesville, Virginia—CfA's Tech Transparency Project (TTP) released a report revealing that Facebook is still failing to remove white supremacist groups, auto-generating some Pages for hate groups itself, and often profiting from searches for them on its platform.
- Even more disturbing: TTP discovered that Facebook searches for some groups with “Ku Klux Klan” in their name generated ads for Black churches, highlighting minority institutions to a user searching for white supremacist content.
- The Washington Post covered the report as an exclusive on Wednesday morning, and TTP's findings were later covered by Politico, The Hill, The Verge, USA Today, and others.
- Although Facebook told The Washington Post that it "immediately began resolving an issue where ads were appearing in searches for terms related to banned organizations," TTP still found examples of Black churches showing up in KKK-related searches following the report's release.
- In light of the report, civil rights advocacy organization Color of Change launched a petition demanding Facebook stop the monetization of hateful searches, end the auto-generate Pages feature, commit to the full removal of hate groups, and take responsibility for current and past harms.
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Michelle Kuppersmith
Executive Director, Campaign for Accountability
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