Facebook Begins Campaign to Purge Europe of Xenophobic, Extremist Posts

"Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s COO, wasted no time leaning in and explaining that because hate speech “has no place in our society,” the site will be implementing its “Initiative for Civil Courage Online,” which will slowly but surely purge Europe of all xenophobic rhetoric. Facebook is doing this by allocating $1.09 million to support non-government organizations that are attempting to curb online threats and hate speech."

There is a group: https://www.facebook.com/onlinecivilcourage

Wonder what constitutes "Hate Speech"

Judging by the comments on their page, they will not do that great of a job purging speech they don't like.

At least in Germany, they've outsourced this to a sub-group of the Bertelsmann company ([1]). They're a big (international) media company. This kind of has a sour taste, given that they probably have economic stakes in the whole game.

[1] http://www.reuters.com/article/facebook-germany-idUSKCN0UT1G...

They should also do something for sexist content. They said they have rules for harrassement, but it's quite rare we manage to be heard when we found problematic content.

No free speech for you!