The documents reveal the rationale behind seemingly inconsistent decisions. The post was removed, and her Facebook account was disabled for seven days.Ī trove of internal documents reviewed by ProPublica sheds new light on the secret guidelines that Facebook's censors use to distinguish between hate speech and legitimate political expression. Start from this reference point, or you've already failed,' Delgado wrote. Higgins' plea for violent revenge went untouched by Facebook workers who scour the social network deleting offensive speech.īut a May posting on Facebook by Boston poet and Black Lives Matter activist Didi Delgado drew a different response. For the sake of all that is good and righteous. ' Hunt them, identify them, and kill them,' declared US Rep. Further Reading Facebook lets advertisers exclude users by raceIn the wake of a terrorist attack in London earlier this month, a US congressman wrote a Facebook post in which he called for the slaughter of 'radicalized' Muslims.
