Facebook and Instagram ban antisemitic conspiracy theories and blackface
Conspiracy theories about Jewish people “controlling the world” are to be explicitly banned from Facebook and Instagram for the first time, after the company announced an update to its content policies on Tuesday.
The ban on “certain kinds of implicit hate speech” would also include content depicting blackface, Facebook’s vice-president of integrity, Guy Rosen, said.
Facebook and Instagram already bar users from posting hate speech, broadly defined as “a direct attack on people based on what we call protected characteristics”, such as race, sexual orientation, or gender identity.
But the company also maintains a more narrowly defined list of “tiers” of hate speech, ranging from tier 1 (such as “content targeting a person on the basis of their aforementioned protected characteristic with dehumanising speech or imagery in the form of comparisons to insects”) to tier 3 (which includes “content targeting a person on the basis of their protected characteristic with calls for segregation”.)
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Of course, people are already whining about this, especially the antisemitic limits. Tick Tock.
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Ty! 
