In the days following the Charlottesville race riot, Mark Zuckerberg , CEO of Facebook, renewed his commitment to rid the world’s largest social media site of ‘hate.’ As reported by CNET and others “The Facebook CEO promised the social network will take down any post that “promotes or celebrates
In the days following the Charlottesville race riot, Mark Zuckerberg , CEO of Facebook, renewed his commitment to rid the world’s largest social media site of ‘hate.’ As reported by CNET and others “The Facebook CEO promised the social network will take down any post that “promotes or celebrates hate crimes or acts of terrorism.” He also condemned neo-Nazis and white supremacists.”
That sounds laudable but for years conservatives have howled that Facebook has two sets of standards when it comes to singling out individuals and organizations for various forms of censure. Recent reports about the African American Defense League’s Facebook have stoked if not proven those concerns.
Hate is one thing, and it’s bad enough. But when combined with advocating violence in the name of hate we’re into another realm completely. The AADL is openly advocating the killing of Americans and is promoting hate in the most vile fashion. Internet watchdog group The Lid has been on top of this sickening development.
“Last Thursday, we reported that the African-American Defense League, a black nationalist group founded by Mauricelm-Lei Millere, posted a call on Facebook to kill what it describes as “Confederates, KKK, skin heads” and “all of … President Trump’s friends” along with their families.
At that time, we reported the post to Facebook but were unable to flag it as violent. The social media site finally responded after some five days, telling us the post does not violate “one of” their community standards:
Thanks for letting us know about this. We looked over the post, and though it doesn’t go against one of our specific Community Standards, you did the right thing by letting us know about it. We understand that it may still be offensive or distasteful to you, so we want to help you see less of things like it in the future.
Facebook went on to advise us how to deal with the issue:
From the list above, you can block AADL – African American Defense League directly, or you may be able to unfriend or unfollow them. We also recommend visiting the Help Center to learn more about how to control what you see in your News Feed. If you find that a person, group or Page consistently posts things you don’t want to see, you may want to limit how often you see their posts or remove them from your Facebook experience.
We know these options may not apply to every situation, so please let us know if you see something else you think we should take a look at.
Here’s the post, which is still live:
This, according to Facebook, does not violate their “Community Standards.”
Needless to say, if a white nationalist group had said this about Obama supporters, the post would have been removed instantaneously and the organization would be banned from the platform — and rightfully so. So why would Facebook allow the post by the AADL to remain?
This kind of double standard is nothing new for the social media site, as Adina Kutnicki, an investigative journalist based in Israel, and I document in our book “Banned: How Facebook enables militant Islamic jihad,” available at Amazon.com and the WND Superstore.”
It doesn’t end there. The AADL isn’t just filled with hate and a desire to kill white supremacists, the group of overt racists has it in for just about anyone who doesn’t fit their mold. On August 11th, the AADL Facebook page posted a video featuring the absolutely brutal pummeling of a young woman. The girl appears to be a teenager or young adult and is beaten literally senseless and into convulsions by men using their fists and what appears to be a log. So awful and graphic is the beating that we’re not going to place a link to it into this article but AADL posted it along with the following commentary [cut/pasted from AADL Facebook]:
“PREPARE TO KILL ALL CHNESE, KOREA,
JAPANESE, INDONESIANS, ARABS, ETC., IN
AFRICA, AND AMERICA, WHO ARE CATCHING
OUR PEOPLE, AND SLAUGHTERING,
CHATTLING, AND KILLING THEM
LIKE ANIMALS, THROUGH FALSE
EMPLOYMENT, AND PRETENSES!
THIS IS HAPPENING, UNDOUBTEDLY, IN
AMERICA AS WELL!
BLACKMAN, WE MUST PREPARE TO KILL,
IN SELF-DEFENSE, ON A GRANDSCALE, EVEN
MANY FOREIGN NATIONALS!
There are some fake agencies from China, Korea, Japan and other parts of Asia currently opened in Nigeria, Ghana and other African countries, promising jobs (domestic ones, such as house-keeping, baby-minding, etc).
However, on arrival, they turn you to anything less than human. Murder our people especially girls for their kidney, Heart and Liver. Mostly our own African brothers and Sisters involving in human trafficking to Dubai, Cairo especially in Libya, Egypt and Lebanon.
They will prepare your travelling documents and everything; when you reach there, that will be your hell and end of your life.
The accompanying video was secretly recorded by a passer-by which was unaware to these culprits and the video says it all. The life you save by circulating it might be your very relative’s. Thank you.
Minister Mauricelm X ( Dr. Mauricelm-Lei Millere), African American Defense League – Organization For Afro-American Unity. Join!”
This apparently also does not violate Facebook “Community Standards” as the post and video are still live on the AADL page at this very moment. The Lid reaches the following conclusions:
“Still, one can’t help but wonder if Facebook truly endorses the mass murder of Trump supporters.
Meanwhile, company CEO Mark Zuckerberg maintains that the organization is working to remove hate posts from the site, according to an article posted at CNN Money earlier this month:
“The last few days have been hard to process. I know a lot of us have been asking where this hate comes from,” said Zuckerberg in a post to his Facebook page. “As a Jew, it’s something I’ve wondered much of my life. It’s a disgrace that we still need to say that neo-Nazis and white supremacists are wrong — as if this is somehow not obvious.”
Zuckerberg did not mention President Trump in the post.
Facebook has taken down a number of white supremacist Facebook Groups since the violence in Charlottesville, Va. The company confirmed it removed pages for at least eight groups, including Vanguard America, White Nationalist United and Genuine Donald Trump. Unite the Right organizers had posted an event page for its rally on Facebook, but it was removed when the company became aware of threats of real-world violence.
With 2 billion users, the company has to carefully balance free speech with safety concerns. Facebook uses a combination of automation, human moderators, and flagging by users to screen for content that violates its community standards. Its policy is not to remove a post or page unless it supports or threatens violence. That policy is not changing, but Facebook appears to be enforcing it more carefully.
“We’ve always taken down any post that promotes or celebrates hate crimes or acts of terrorism — including what happened in Charlottesville,” wrote Zuckerberg. “With the potential for more rallies, we’re watching the situation closely and will take down threats of physical harm.” [Emphasis added]
Exit questions: If advocating the mass murder of Trump supporters doesn’t qualify as “hate” or supporting violence, what does? Or do we really need to ask?
[NOTE: This article was written by Derrick Wilburn, Founder and Chairman of the Rocky Mountain Black Conservatives, and a speaker, author, columnist and analyst for multiple print and broadcast media outlets. Follow him on Facebook and at RMBlackConservatives.com.]
Source: Allen West
