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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Laura Ingraham took to her primetime program on Fox News <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2019/05/30/laura-ingraham-defends-white-supremacist-paul-nehlen-one-prominent-voices-censored-social-media/223840" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">last night</a> to defend conspiracy theorists, extremists, and an unabashed neo-Nazi as “prominent voices” in the conservative movement that have been supposedly “censored on social media.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">A graphic produced by Fox News featured eight people who have been suspended or claim to have been throttled on social media platforms. The figures featured were dubbed “prominent voices censored on social media."[nice grfx]</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Here’s who Fox News considers a “prominent” conservative figures.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">The graphic featured first Alex Jones, the creator and leading voice of the conspiracy theory outlet Infowars. Jones is currently facing <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/alex-jones-faces-yet-another-lawsuit/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">multiple defamation lawsuits</a> regarding his insistence that the Sandy Hook massacre was a hoax, which resulted in the families of slain children being harassed and traumatized by Jones’ viewers. Jones’ intentional spread of disinformation, harassment, and bullying of victims of tragedies and his regular distribution of offensive content broke enough community guidelines on social media platforms to result in a <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/spotify-cancels-the-alex-jones-show-and-apple-facebook-and-youtube-dump-infowars/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">wide-scale deplatforming</a> of his operation online. Infowars has regularly provided a <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/infowars-is-working-to-sanitize-a-white-nationalist-group/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">safe space</a> for extremists to recruit to their efforts.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Next on the graphic was Milo Yiannopoulous, a disgraced right-wing hate monger who <a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/charliewarzel/twitter-just-permanently-suspended-conservative-writer-milo" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">stirred</a>harassment and vitriol online and violated the community guidelines of many social media sites, resulting in his accounts being permanently suspended. His comments online after the Christchurch massacre in New Zealand, where a white supremacist slaughtered practicing Muslims in two mosques, resulted in him being banned from entering the country of Australia. Yiannopoulous was once a prominent figure in the right-wing movement, thanks in large part to flush funding from the conservative mega-donor Mercer family. The Mercer family funding and Yiannopoulous’ spotlight was <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/11/the-mercers-wash-their-hands-of-milo/544877/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">dimmed</a> after BuzzFeed News published leaked emails showing Yiannopoulous’ <a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/josephbernstein/heres-how-breitbart-and-milo-smuggled-white-nationalism" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">collaboration with white supremacists and his attempt bring them into the mainstream.</a> After audio surfaced of Yiannopoulous appearing to endorse pedophilia, Yiannopoulous was effectively designated persona non grata among conservatives.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Beside Yiannopoulous is Laura Loomer, <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/the-anti-muslim-hate-group-backing-laura-loomers-independent-journalism/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">an anti-Muslim activist</a></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> whose targeting of Islamic worshipers (and </span><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/laura-loomer-goes-ballistic-in-anti-muslim-twitter-meltdown/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">any random person</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> whose appearance led her to believe they are Muslim) violated social media rules against hateful content and resulted in her removal from major tech platforms. Loomer has had numerous affiliations with members of the white nationalist movement and </span><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/right-wing-media-figures-rally-behind-a-white-nationalist/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">endorsed</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Faith Goldy, who recited the white supremacist “</span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cpHTVvnquI" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">14 Words</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">” in her bid to become mayor of Toronto.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Loomer, a former Project Veritas operative, has <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/laura-loomer-is-in-florida-to-help-infowars-sow-disinformation-about-another-mass-shooting/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">collaborated</a> with Infowars on disinformation campaigns surrounding shootings in Florida and Las Vegas.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Candace Owens, </b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">who began her career in conservative media using the moniker “Red Pill Black,” joined Ingraham in-studio for the segment and was also featured on the graphic. She was </span><a href="https://thehill.com/policy/technology/444421-facebook-temporarily-suspended-conservative-commentator-candace-owens" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">briefly suspended</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> by Facebook earlier this month after one of her posts had been flagged for violating community standards, but she currently uses the site freely.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Owens got an early boost in her career from Alex Jones</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> and has continued to advance in conservative circles despite her early affiliations. Owens was recently filmed </span><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/candace-owens-hitler-was-ok-until-he-tried-to-go-global" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">saying</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> that the problem with Adolf Hitler was that he was too ambitious and took his plans beyond Germany.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><b>Michelle Malkin</b>, who argued in a 2004 book that the United States was right to displace and intern 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry in America during World War II, was another “prominent” voice Ingraham featured. Malkin frequently parrots white nationalist rhetoric on immigration; at this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference, she <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/cpac-white-nationalists-extremists-michelle-malkin-peter-brimelow_n_5c7c3834e4b0e1f776530551" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">likened</a> immigration to an “invasion” that “endangers” Americans. She closed that speech by saying, “diversity is not our strength,” and followed her speech by <a href="https://www.adl.org/blog/white-supremacists-and-other-extremists-welcomed-at-cpac-2019" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">giving an interview</a> to the racist website VDARE.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Actor and ardent Trump supporter James Woods, who is <a href="https://twitter.com/oliverdarcy/status/1124716825852428288?lang=en" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">not banned from Twitter</a>, but rather has refused to delete a post on his Twitter profile with the hashtag “#HangThemAll” that would result in his account being unlocked, was also featured as a “prominent” censored conservative voice.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Before being locked out of Twitter, Woods also shared a meme of the Christchurch shooter </span><a href="https://twitter.com/willsommer/status/1115346306300616709?lang=en" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">depicted as a clown</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, part of a </span><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/white-nationalists-adopt-clowns-as-their-next-racist-symbol-yes-seriously/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">push</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> by white supremacists to find a new way to launder their voices into relevance.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Fox News deemed Paul Nehlen as another “prominent” conservative voice. Nehlen is a failed state congressional candidate in Wisconsin who pivoted his campaign message to explicitly target Jews and then <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/paul-nehlen-is-paying-out-his-campaign-funds-to-his-wife-next-door-neighbor/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">funneled</a> the money he made to his wife and neighbor.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> He was banned from social media for being an explicit Nazi and is so aggressive that even the white supremacist internet haven Gab decided to boot him. Angry White Men recently </span><a href="https://angrywhitemen.org/2019/04/29/patrick-little-and-paul-nehlen-are-feuding-over-how-to-start-a-race-war/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">reported</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> that Nehlen and his likewise-failed neo-Nazi counterpart Patrick Little had been debating the best way to start a race war in the United States. And as Right Wing Watch reported earlier this week, Nehlen has promoted the writings of </span><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/splinters-of-white-nationalist-movement-are-returning-to-neo-nazi-author-who-advocated-violence/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">neo-Nazi James Mason</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, which advocate terrorism to fulfill a white supremacist agenda.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><b>Dan Scavino, White House social media manager, </b>was also featured on this list because he accused Facebook of censoring him for replying to a comment. Platforms are <a href="https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/440703-evidence-contradicts-right-wing-narrative-of-tech-censorship-and-bias" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">known</a> to throttle accounts if software suspects an account may be spamming and there is no evidence that Scavino was targeted for restriction otherwise.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">It’s for segments like these that Democrat presidential hopeful Sen. Elizabeth Warren <a href="https://www.boston.com/news/politics/2019/05/30/elizabeth-warren-the-view-fox-news-town-halls" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">rejected an invitation</a> to appear on Fox News for a town hall interview, calling the network a “hate-for-profit” scam and drawing criticisms from conservatives. Figures like Meghan McCain insisted that Warren’s refusal to subsidize Fox News with her appearance were off-base and cut her off from conservatives.</font></p><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></font></div></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><p style="margin: 1em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Facebook <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=cd63cf57fe82b2c7867dace8e9650e322fa70ebad556b6a0e5df201b305f09340072404c7906e2ca1acdd9f87de71d7097b22dcf1cb8746f" title="announced on Thursday">announced on Thursday</a> that it had removed several extremists from social networks Facebook and Instagram, including neo-Nazi sympathizer <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=cd63cf57fe82b2c7fa6a5c268c2392b0d4902271254961c83c4d8b239b81de5c1dd427a086187d7e74ac80eab2e2c3163721f8c618de2f44" title="Milo Yiannopoulos">Milo Yiannopoulos</a>, anti-Muslim bigot <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=cd63cf57fe82b2c71571b806c2f00f9726e8afe1f1aa6c53cc85a8a7f5dc6e9256ba1fb559876cda508cc7d12b78dc8a934af4d24ee8bd04" title="Laura Loomer">Laura Loomer</a>, far-right YouTuber <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=cd63cf57fe82b2c7f5f659d65b3910c0bca6a0a6a80159572490746394af0bc41e307d189a9ca15e3537f1c36af1ba212f28beae9ce2a629" title="Paul Joseph Watson">Paul Joseph Watson</a>, conspiracy theorist <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=cd63cf57fe82b2c75f4aaefe1711221d0f01801be72ab5b9a00f7cc8ac165962107131e8c61652919796cb1d70b4af3719d153608b4169af" title="Alex Jones">Alex Jones</a> (<a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=cd63cf57fe82b2c7ab19e1873b9f2de9b30207c8761cd8dcdeb8761e88da9594e645b3497cf5594541b725a9d22fda6ba9e73b691753f93e" title="again">again</a>), and white supremacist <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=cd63cf57fe82b2c7a02ad8b797f1211d8758c9aaaaf289f3cc8619abf66e9e3203e8fb1f2ca048c3fcd007e5cce4697e64363011ee41d43b" title="Paul Nehlen">Paul Nehlen </a>, while also removing Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan for his record of anti-Semitic rhetoric.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This is a step in the right direction for Facebook that opens doors to make the platform safer, and inspires some optimism that the tech company might be capable of taking responsibility for the ways its platforms have empowered extremists. But there is more to do.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Taking definitive action against some of the toxicity that's thrived on its platforms is long overdue, especially considering Facebook's <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=cd63cf57fe82b2c76ed5f76a61faef171c1b71c213068bcd8c7d890d0adcda3556bf5ee4a6da1d816e2421d1f1fc7fa0345bfecfa6889b89" title=" record of struggling">record of struggling</a> to enforce policies aimed at curbing the reach and influence of extremists. The company's recent attempt to ban white supremacist content from its platforms proved insufficient, and <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=cd63cf57fe82b2c752ce8812fefe1a8e5cd4c8286752e446462e983c429547e4b61543837f2f76d38ce08077108718df62150cdd72f8aaa3" title="allowed extremists">allowed extremists </a>to continue posting racist content as long as it wasn't too explicit.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Some achievable measures that could help curb extremism while protecting users who experience oppression include:</font></p><ul style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Follow through. Facebook's already banned Alex Jones before -- this time it is saying it's for real. A bad sign is that there is still <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=cd63cf57fe82b2c789b60be7589506769b0dcf98e74555ec020426b5cd77fea05589f741d38b8ee4e69991543d6134b48c59d075a046a796" title="a slew of Jones-linked pages on the platform">a slew of Jones-linked pages on the platform</a>.</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Refuse to back down. On Saturday, Trump threw a fit about the bans on Twitter, retweeting Watson multiple times. Trump also retweeted white nationalist Canadian <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=cd63cf57fe82b2c7bc7840d44c4c1bcf00bda928eddee887584813ff220653ac43115c7d5011dc590426157419ea72920afa6369afd51c2c" title="Lauren Southern">Lauren Southern</a>. Trump's goal is obviously to force concessions or even a reversal from Facebook. It's never a bad time to finally grow some backbone.</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Committing to enforcing standards against codified white nationalism by more effectively pairing automated and human reviews to better identify violating content.</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Proactively limiting the visibility of content when its traffic is being directed from toxic sources like anonymous message boards 4chan and 8chan.</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Extending anti-discrimination policies currently applied to ads to include event pages and groups. Event pages and private group pages are often used as tools to help extremists organize and mobilize.</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Reassessing <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=cd63cf57fe82b2c7b0a0878b5addc46a3cb079a6bf371ef949cad36d689733114e61fce2a09a7a6efe191ecba6b6e9d48248445fe3f6418d" title="the fact-checking partnership with Tucker Carlson's Daily Caller website">the fact-checking partnership with Tucker Carlson's Daily Caller website</a>, which has ties to white supremacists and anti-Semites.</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Increasing transparency in metrics for third-party auditors. While it might save Facebook some bad press, some of the company's privacy limitations hinder outside researchers in their efforts to identify security concerns.</font></li></ul></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div></div><div>===</div>