Of the 113 white supremacist groups the project found on Facebook, 36% had pages or groups created by active users.
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A screenshot of a white supremacist group's Facebook page from the study by the Tech Transparency Project.
After HuffPost emailed a Facebook spokesperson about TTP’s report this week, project researchers noticed the company had removed pages for 55 white supremacist groups identified in its report.
“We are making progress keeping this activity off our platform and are reviewing content in this report,” a Facebook spokesperson said in a statement to HuffPost, adding that the company has “banned over 250 white supremacist organizations and removed 4.7 million pieces of content tied to organized hate globally in the first quarter of 2020, over 96% of which we found before someone reported it.”
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A screenshot by the Tech Transparency Project shows how Facebook auto-generates pages for white supremacist groups.
