The disrupted network was loosely affiliated with the"Boogaloo" movement, whose followers have appeared at recent protests while heavily armed, the Silicon Valley-based company said Tuesday.
The social network reported that it removed 220 Facebook accounts and another 95 Instagram accounts, along with 28 pages and 106 groups"that currently comprise the network." The Boogaloo movement is not organized, and the ideology shares followers with some neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups, as well as with libertarians and anarchists.
Few had heard of the Boogaloo movement before this year. But recently, the Justice Department charged one of its followers, California Air Force Sergeant Steven Carrillo, with the drive-by killing of an Oakland police officer during May 29 Black Lives Matter protests. The"Boogaloo" movement, which has adopted Hawaiian shirts as a uniform, promotes"a coming civil war and/or collapse of society," according to a Nevada federal prosecutor involved in a criminal case against alleged members.Facebook also vowed to give priority to original news reporting as part of an effort to divert attention from spam, clickbait and specious articles.
An unprecedented ad boycott has been joined by major brands like Unilever, Starbucks, Levi's and Coca-Cola, with nearly 200 firms pausing advertising on the social network, wiping out billions in Facebook's market value.
Facebook please do the same purging of hate accts in the Philippines.
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