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Facebook defends itself against report it allowed hate speech for financial gain

ID: e041c81e-ee28-595c-81b5-b7e0eaecf6d6

STIX ID: report--e041c81e-ee28-595c-81b5-b7e0eaecf6d6

Feed Name: Security Ledger

Date Published: 2018-07-17

Date Updated: 2026-04-26

Author: Elizabeth Montalbano

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Channel 4's undercover report alleged that Facebook gave leniency to prominent far-right pages because they generated revenue, allowing repeated policy violations to persist; Facebook denied the claim, launched an internal review, retrained staff, corrected enforcement errors, and announced plans to expand safety teams and automated detection to better remove problematic content.

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