Social networking service Facebook is taking motion towards hateful posts and misinformation surrounding the mass capturing that left eight individuals useless in Atlanta earlier this week.
According to Mashable, on March 16, Robert Aaron Long allegedly shot and killed eight individuals at three completely different Atlanta companies: Young’s Asian Massage Parlor, Aromatherapy Spa, and Gold Spa. Seven of the victims have been ladies. Six have been recognized as Asian.
According to the corporate, it’s designating the capturing as a “violating event.” This mainly implies that Facebook will take away any content material on its platform which praises or helps the capturing or the shooter.
Such posts are in violation of the corporate’s insurance policies on selling or inciting violence. Facebook has beforehand labeled shootings, such because the one on the Black Lives Matter protest in Kenosha, Wisconsin final summer time, with this designation.
In addition, the social networking firm is not going to let anybody create a brand new account on Facebook or Instagram utilizing the identical identify because the suspected shooter.
Over the previous day, screenshots of a submit purportedly from Long’s Facebook account have unfold on-line. Facebook has confirmed that the posting is pretend.
“We’ve confirmed that these screenshots are fake and we’re removing them from the platform for violating our policies,” stated a Facebook spokesperson in a remark offered to Mashable.
While the Facebook account is pretend, the corporate has discovered an Instagram account that’s really linked to the shooter. Facebook stated that it eliminated the account, which has been inactive for some time, and it’ll proceed to monitor its platforms for extra accounts belonging to the shooter and take away them.
Facebook additionally said that it’s in contact with regulation enforcement in regards to the capturing.
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