British lawmakers introduced a white paper this week proposing a social-media watchdog that could fine executives and ban companies, while a European Union committee backed a proposal to impose hefty fines on web companies if they failed to remove terrorism-related content within an hour. Australian lawmakers last week made it a crime for social-media firms to not swiftly take down “abhorrent violent material.
“These platforms are like round-the-clock digital white supremacist rallies,” Eileen Hershenov of the Anti-Defamation League told the hearing, estimating that the majority of extremist murders in the United States last year were carried out by white supremacists. On Monday, Facebook said it had banned the Canadian Nationalist Front and its chairman Kevin Goudreau, Aryan Strikeforce, Wolves of Odin and Soldiers of Odin, along with media commentator and former Toronto mayoral candidate Faith Goldy.Twitter on Monday declined to comment on the accounts that Facebook had removed and did not respond to questions about why it continued to allow some of the same groups to continue to post on Twitter.
Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey has frequently said the company’s top priority is “conversational health,” including at an event in Toronto last week – though it has historicallyMr. Goudreau did not respond to requests for comment. His group describes its goal as “a return to Canada’s traditional ethnic demographics.
globebusiness Here we go again
globebusiness Legacy media is losing control of being able to push their fake news agenda.... They are still behind the times of they think these groups are really dependant on Facebook...