{"id":127317,"date":"2019-06-14T08:51:40","date_gmt":"2019-06-14T16:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=127317"},"modified":"2019-06-14T08:51:56","modified_gmt":"2019-06-14T16:51:56","slug":"facebooks-process-to-label-you-a-hate-agent-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=127317","title":{"rendered":"Facebook\u2019s Process to Label You a \u2018Hate Agent\u2019 Revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Breitbart<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Facebook monitors the offline behavior of its users to determine if they should be categorized as a \u201cHate Agent,\u201d according to a document provided exclusively to Breitbart News by a source within the social media giant.
\nThe document, titled \u201cHate Agent Policy Review\u201d outlines a series of \u201csignals\u201d that Facebook uses to determine if someone ought to be categorized as a \u201chate agent\u201d and banned from the platform.<\/p>\n

Those signals include a wide range of on- and off-platform behavior. If you praise the wrong individual, interview them, or appear at events alongside them, Facebook may categorize you as a \u201chate agent.\u201d<\/p>\n

Facebook may also categorize you as a hate agent if you self-identify with or advocate for a \u201cDesignated Hateful Ideology,\u201d if you associate with a \u201cDesignated Hate Entity\u201d (one of the examples cited by Facebook as a \u201chate entity\u201d includes Islam critic Tommy Robinson), or if you have \u201ctattoos of hate symbols or hate slogans.\u201d (The document cites no examples of these, but the media and \u201canti-racism\u201d advocacy groups increasingly label innocuous items as \u201chate symbols,\u201d including a cartoon frog and the \u201cOK\u201d hand sign.)<\/p>\n

Facebook will also categorize you as a hate agent for possession of \u201chate paraphernalia,\u201d although the document provides no examples of what falls into this category.<\/p>\n

The document also says Facebook will categorize you as a hate agent for \u201cstatements made in private but later made public.\u201d Of course, Facebook holds vast amounts of information on what you say in public and in private \u2014 and as we saw with the Daily Beast doxing story, the platform will publicize private information on their users to assist the media in hitjobs on regular American citizens.<\/p>\n

Breitbart News has already covered some of the individuals that Facebook placed on its list of potential \u201chate agents.\u201d Paul Joseph Watson eventually was categorized as \u201chateful\u201d and banned from the platform, in part, according to the document, because he praised Tommy Robinson and interviewed him on his YouTube channel. Star conservative pundit Candace Owens and conservative author and terrorism expert Brigitte Gabriel were also on the list, as were British politicians Carl Benjamin and Anne Marie Waters.<\/p>\n

The Benjamin addition reveals that Facebook may categorize you as a hate agent merely for speaking neutrally about individuals and organizations that the social network considers hateful. In the document, Facebook tags Benjamin with a \u201chate agent\u201d signal for \u201cneutral representation of John Kinsman, member of Proud Boys\u201d on October 21 last year.<\/p>\n

Facebook also accuses Benjamin, a classical liberal and critic of identity politics, as \u201crepresenting the ideology of an ethnostate\u201d for a post in which he calls out an actual advocate of an ethnostate.<\/p>\n

In addition to the more unorthodox signals that Facebook uses to determine if its users are \u201chate agents,\u201d there is also, predictably, \u201chate speech.\u201d Facebook divides hate speech into three tiers depending on severity and considers attacks on a person\u2019s \u201cimmigration status\u201d to be hate speech.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s how \u201chate speech\u201d \u2014 both on and off Facebook \u2014 will be categorized by the platform, according to the document:<\/p>\n

Individual has made public statements, or statements made in private and later made public, using Tier 1, 2, or 3 hate speech or slurs:<\/p>\n

3 instances in one statement or appearance = signal
\n5 instances in multiple statements or appearances over one month = signal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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