Discussion

• @rmac18 @rmac18 on x

  Facebook only acted after watchdog groups, politicians, and news outlets said for months that the company was giving oxygen to this extremist group. We were concurrently reporting our story when the announcement came out. It took us minutes today to find ads w/ Boogaloo terms. ht…

• @daveyalba Davey Alba on x

  .@alexstamos told me FB recognizes it can't reduce the risk from boogaloo via piecemeal moderation; a blanket ban was needed also: big departure from ISIS, which used centralized decision making. boogaloo are decentralized, internet-native shitposters! https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @buzzfeednews @buzzfeednews on x

  BuzzFeed News discovered several pieces of paid content related to the Boogaloo movement on Facebook and Instagram, despite claims by Facebook that it was doing more to take action against the anti-government extremist group https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...

• @maziehirono Senator Mazie Hirono on x

  Pardon me if I don't applaud @Facebook for finally banning “Boogaloo” groups. As @MarkWarner, @SenatorMenendez and I recently pointed out, these groups (which call for civil war) have been spreading hate and inciting violence for months. What took so long?https://www.forbes.com/ …

• @daveyalba Davey Alba on x

  Other notes: -Unlike CIB, enforcement here looks not just at behavior but also *content* -There were public AND private groups in this takedown (FB did not disclose the proportion of each) -No foreign influence networks amplifying boogaloo detected so far https://www.nytimes.com/…

• @timinhonolulu Tim Hogan on x

  Wow. What's next @Facebook? Banning #ISIS? https://twitter.com/...

• @daveyalba Davey Alba on x

  and @etbrooking called boogaloo a “content moderation nightmare.” bc many can claim truthfully that they don't engage in violence or explicitly advocate for white nationalism, it's evaded moderation for several months. but— https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @malcolmnance Malcolm Nance on x

  FINALLY! Facebook succumbs to pressure. Now watch the militias change their name & we start all over. https://twitter.com/...

• @carolineha_ Caroline Haskins on x

  NEW: Facebook has been running Boogaloo-related ads and selling Boogaloos merch on its platform. The extremist group openly calls for violence. One ad shows a supercut glorifying miltarized gun violence: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...

• @ttp_updates @ttp_updates on x

  Facebook's latest boogaloo policy is too little & too late “Too late, because these groups have already organized attacks on police and government officials, killing several. Too little, because we've already identified several violent boogaloo groups missed by Facebook's ban.” h…

• @peterwsinger Peter W. Singer on x

  Facebook (finally) steps up on far rigght boogaloo movement. Bans 220 Facebook and 95 Instagram accounts, 28 Pages and 106 groups . Also removes 400 additional groups and 100 Pages for violating its Dangerous Individuals and Organizations policy https://about.fb.com/... #Likewar

• @cindyotis_ Cindy Otis on x

  FB taking a harder stance on this than the Federal government, at this point. “Today we are designating a violent US-based anti-government network as a dangerous organization and banning it from our platform. This network uses the term boogaloo...” https://about.fb.com/...

• @fbnewsroom @fbnewsroom on x

  Today we designated a violent US-based anti-government network as a dangerous organization and banned it from our platform. This is the latest step in our commitment to ban people who proclaim a violent mission from using our apps. https://about.fb.com/...

• @jeffstone500 Jeff Stone on x

  Facebook's Boogaloo removal is big: - 220 accounts - 95 Instagrams - 28 pages - 106 groups (!!) - Plus 400 groups (!!!!) that violated anti-hate policy. https://about.fb.com/... One problem: white supremacists have shown they can get around bans. https://www.cyberscoop.com/...

• @karissabe Karissa Bell on x

  Facebook cracks down on boogaloos: removing 100s of groups/pages/accounts associated with “a violent US-based anti-government network under our Dangerous Individuals and Organizations policy” FB considers this “distinct from the broader and loosely-affiliated boogaloo movement” h…

• @josh_emerson Josh Russell on x

  Local booger boys fb group with 7k members is still up so far. Facebook to remove anti-government ‘Boogaloo’ groups https://www.nbcnews.com/...

• @aprilaser April Glaser on x

  This only comes after members of these Facebook groups used the platform to orchestrate murder.. https://twitter.com/...

• @nycsouthpaw Southpaw on x

  This comes a few weeks after the boogs allegedly used Facebook to plan the murder of one federal officer and the attempted murder of another (and also murdered a Santa Cruz sheriff's deputy in the aftermath of that attack). https://www.justice.gov/... https://twitter.com/...

• @russellbrandom Russell Brandom on x

  Wild that it took this long to ban groups devoted to armed revolt https://www.theverge.com/...

• @oneunderscore__ Ben Collins on x

  New: Facebook is “designating a violent U.S.-based anti-government network (the Boogaloo movement) as a dangerous organization and banning it from our apps.” https://www.nbcnews.com/...

• @shiraovide Shira Ovide on x

  (Just wanted to mention here that policy and effective enforcement of policy are two separate things.) https://twitter.com/...

• @mikeisaac Rat King on x

  constitutionally incapable of saying “boog*loo movement” with a straight face

• @caseynewton Casey Newton on x

  Boogaloo, meet ban hammer https://twitter.com/...