More than a month after Facebook banned some white nationalist, white supremacist and other hate groups, they remain active on the platform and continue to use it for recruitment. Another Facebook page, “West is the Best II: Electric Boogaloo,” directly pointed its fans to the Proud Boys USA website. Squire reported an Indiana-based Ku Klux Klan group to Facebook in November after noticing that it was using a Facebook page to organize events and rallies. As a result of sporadic enforcement, hate groups are able to not only continue spreading propaganda and organizing, but to make the conversation on Facebook more extreme. A common tactic is for the groups to swarm other pages’ comment sections, which is known as “raiding” or “brigading.” “Some of these extremist groups have these adventure pages,” Squire said.

Source: thestar May 30, 2019 19:51 UTC