Members of Congress, the Senate and the House of Representatives urged Facebook to take measures to prevent hate calls against Muslims and limit their spread on its platforms, which was revealed by a recently published report.

Chris Kunz, a Democratic senator from Delaware, sent a letter signed by 14 Democratic senators, a message to CEO Mark Zuckerberg in which they expressed their concern over the spread of content that demonizes Islam and Muslims on the site's platforms.

Emphasizing that enabling hate speech and violence against any group is unacceptable.

Debbie Dingle, a Michigan Democrat in the House of Representatives, in a letter similar to Facebook, signed by 30 members of Parliament, urged the need to intervene and take immediate action from Facebook to eliminate anti-Muslim intolerance from the platform, and called on Mark Zuckerberg to implement 6 measures to combat Fanatic content.

The messages included examples of anti-Muslim content cases on many pages in the Facebook application, and the messages were accompanied by recent reports showing the use of Facebook to incite violence against the Muslim population in a number of countries.

Lawmakers asked Facebook to respond to a series of questions related to its plans to take measures to curb intolerance against Muslims by January 16.

Facebook demands effective measures to stop hate calls against Islam and Muslims in America (agencies)

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Congresswoman Dingle cited a case of an Australian extremist killing 51 Muslims while they were praying in their New Zealand mosque live, and said in her message, "Facebook cannot celebrate the success of its platform while ignoring its role in raising dangerous and deadly content targeting Muslims."

“In Christchurch, New Zealand, a terrorist attack that stole the lives of 51 Muslims worshiping in their mosque was broadcast live on Facebook around the world. But in the weeks and months that followed, Facebook failed to introduce a single policy deliberately aimed at eliminating hateful content,” Dingle adds. "After nearly two years, it is time for Facebook to prove that this company understands the life and death consequences of inaction."

The members of the House of Representatives message demanded that Mark Zuckerberg implement several measures, the most important of which are:

* Forming a task force consisting of senior employees who focus on issues of anti-Muslim intolerance and responsible for coordinating work within the company to address hate groups, pro-intolerance content, and anti-discrimination training.

* Imposing restrictions on the content of pages that fuel hatred and pages of hate groups in a way that ensures that militias and white racists cannot use Facebook to spread their fanatic ideology that promotes violence.

* Commitment to an independent third-party review of the company's role in enabling anti-Muslim violence, genocide, and arrest in many cases.

* A 100% commitment to remove anti-Muslim content and all other forms of hatred from any pages in the Facebook application and programs.

* A commitment to provide regular anti-discrimination training for all Facebook employees around the world.

* Training of key personnel on civil rights issues and hate crimes and their common terminology used by members of hate groups, especially those that dehumanize and distort Muslims.

Calls of the extreme right for anti-Islam and restrictions on Muslims are spreading strongly in the West (Al-Jazeera)

Renewed pressure on Facebook

The move comes as the company faces pressure from civil rights groups who have long complained that it does little to monitor hate speech.

Earlier this year, more than 1,000 advertisers boycotted Facebook to protest its handling of hate speech and disinformation.

Facebook and other social platforms have been indicted for failing to stop offensive and hateful content, including organized violence against Muslims in India and the massacre of the Rohingya minority in Myanmar.

Critics of Facebook and other social networks say they should be held accountable for calls for organized violence that appear on their platforms, calling for reform of a law that protects internet services from liability for content posted by third parties.

Facebook data states that, since last August, it has stopped more than 600 social-military movements and removed their pages or accounts, part of an effort that dropped 22.1 million posts containing "hate speech."

Propaganda of incitement against Islam, which claims that it is a religion of blood and murder, is popular with white extremists in America (Al Jazeera)

100 anti-Muslim groups in America

An American human rights center revealed a remarkable acceleration - for the fourth year in a row - in hate crimes of all kinds in the United States.

Studies of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) published prior to the New Zealand incident concluded that they had seen a 30% rise in the number of hate groups in recent years.

The number of these groups increased by 7% during the year 2018 only, according to the center's annual report, bringing their number to 1020 hate groups monitored and classified by the center, and among these groups nearly 100 are hostile to Islam and Muslims.

Among the most famous of these groups are Act for America, the Center for Security Policy, and the Soldiers of Odin.

The Southern Poverty Law Center is considered one of the leading centers specialized in studies of discrimination and racism in the United States.