Facebook
is making a serious effort to respond faster to complaints, but this is
meaningless if the response is to invariably reject the complaints.
There is also no appeal and we have no details of any internal review
process – if there is one, Facebook is welcome to share details to
reassure us.
There
is no way of knowing what is going on at Facebook, but three
possibilities suggest themselves: (1) Facebook is giving control of the
review process to a group of died in the wool racists, (2) Facebook
review staff are well intentioned but seriously ignorant about hate
speech, (3) Facebook as policy is doing everything it can in order to
normalise the presence of hate speech on its platform. Either the
recruitment process is serious flawed, or the training provided to staff
is seriously inadequate, or something is rotten at the core of
Facebook.
OHPI believes that these examples are exceedingly clear demonstrations of racism. We call on Facebook to:
1. Remove the offensive images
2. Close the offensive pages they are posting them
3. Permanently close the accounts of the users abusing Facebook to spread such hate
4. Review which staff assessed these examples and audit their decision making
5. Take active measures to improve staff training to avoid similar poor decisions in the future
6. To institute an appeal process as part of the online reporting system
7. To institute systematic random checks of rejected complaints
The
following images document items that were reported and rejected by
Facebook. The concern here is not simply that this content was on the
Facebook platform, but that Facebook staff were not able to identify
this as hate even after it had been reported to them.
Item 1: Mocking Holocaust Victims
Item 2: Promoting Blood Libel
Item 3: Denying Jews Human Rights
Item 4: Holocaust Denial
Original link: http://ohpi.org.au/?p=286
Children of Jewish Holocaust Survivors(CJHS)
is a 501(c)(3) non-profit tax exempt organization committed to the
promotion of Western values against the dual threats of complacency and
the spread of Islam. We believe that the land of Israel - safe and
secure and prospering as a Jewish State - is a prerequisite to long-term
global peace. CJHS insists that the last Holocaust imposes upon all
people of good will a moral and political imperative to prevent the next
one.
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