Nearly 200 Facebook and Instagram accounts advocating a violent reaction to the protests that are currently taking place in the United States after the death of George Floyd have been deleted, report our colleagues from BFMTV. Since May 25 and the death of the African American during a police arrest in Minneapolis, rallies have multiplied in the country. Among the accounts deleted, some were linked to white supremacists and asked users to take up arms to fight with protesters from the "Black Lives Matter" movement.
Part of the accounts banned by social networks had established links with the "Proud Boys" and the American Guard. Two groups cataloged as “hateful” by Facebook with regard to its moderation rules. "We have seen that these groups plan to rally supporters and network members to physically go to the protests and, in some cases, with weapons," said Brian Fishman, director of counterterrorism and policy. dangerous Facebook organizations.
No information on the identity of the targeted Internet users
Little information has filtered on these deletions. Little is known about the precise nature of the accounts, and even less about the people holding them or the audience they reached. Nor was it possible to establish which demonstrations were targeted by these calls to take up arms.
Facebook also said it had deleted some accounts created last week by white supremacists. To go unnoticed, they presented themselves on Twitter as members of extreme left movements.
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