The study comes after years of rising white nationalism in the U.S.
Facebook has since taken a more aggressive stance in banning white supremacist activity but has been criticized for what extremism researchers describe as ato hate on the platform. The company often takes down content only after inquiries from journalists.
“We are making progress keeping this activity off our platform and are reviewing content in this report,” a Facebook spokesperson said in a statement to HuffPost, adding that the company has “banned over 250 white supremacist organizations and removed 4.7 million pieces of content tied to organized hate globally in the first quarter of 2020, over 96% of which we found before someone reported it.”
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