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The social media site said that it had also banned a number of groups and would attempt to prevent them from reforming, including Physical Removal, Genuine Donald Trump, White Nationalists United, Right Wing Death Squad, Vanguard America and others, and was actively removing hate speech, support of hate groups and the praising of violence.
Twitter has failed to meet European standards for removing hate speech online, the European Commission is expected to say today, as pressure mounts on technology companies.
BUSINESS DAY An article on Wednesday about Facebook's system for removing hate speech from its site misattributed, in some editions, a comment on the power of advertisers in social media.
Recently, members of Congress have demanded that major social media sites do a better job combating terrorist propaganda, removing hate speech and ensuring their powerful algorithms aren't biased against conservatives – but it's Russian disinformation that's worried lawmakers most.
On Nov. 8, Burma's parliament approved a law that allows the government "to oversee and monitor the misuse of information technology which may harm the character and morality of youths and disrupt tranquility". In a post for Facebook's "Hard Questions" blog, a company vice president wrote of the problem of catching and removing hate speech in Burma.
She said Facebook would consult lawyers and interest groups to upgrade its guidelines on removing hate speech.
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"Social media companies must also take swift action to remove hate speech and pass appropriate evidence on to police.
In December, Punjab police were asked to remove hate literature against the Ahmadiyya minority from Lahore's largest technology market.
A Facebook spokeswoman said the company was ramping up efforts to remove hate content and people who repeatedly violate the company's hate-speech policies.
It cites the example of Germany, which passed a law in January 2018 forcing tech companies to remove hate speech within 24 hours or face a €20m (£17.5m) fine.
The German government have changed the law so that social media companies face hefty fines if they fail to quickly remove hate speech, fake news and illegal material.
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