GettyOn Thursday, Facebook announced a permanent ban from both Facebook and Instagram on all of the U.K.'s most prominent far-right groups. The race to regulateSocial media regulation is on its way, and the platforms are now acting to remove content from their sites. Facebook told me "we want Facebook to be a safe place and we will continue to invest in keeping harm, terrorism, and hate speech off the platform." "Some of these groups banned from Facebook," he tweeted, "are the ones whose supporters were specifically targeted by Arron Banks and Leave.EU with hateful anti-migrant ads during the ref. Jim Killock, the executive director of the Open Rights Group, said of the proposed U.K. regulation that "the government’s proposals would create state regulation of the speech of millions of British citizens.

Source: Forbes April 18, 2019 14:57 UTC