They called for a second civil war, and some had even been accused of a number of violent crimes, including murder.
Members of the loose-knit Boogaloo movement were known for showing up to anti-lockdown demonstrations and George Floyd protests in 2020, carrying assault rifles and wearing body armor and Hawaiian shirts. That’s why we keep investing heavily in people and technology to stay ahead of the evolving landscape, and then study and refine those tactics to ensure they’re effective at keeping our users and platforms safe.” It is our priority to keep our platforms, and communities, safe. Meta, Facebook’s parent company, said in a statement that the new study is a “snapshot from one moment in time two years ago - we know this is an adversarial space that’s constantly changing, where perpetrators constantly try to find new ways around our policies. Facebook designated the Boogaloo movement “a violent US-based anti-government network” under that policy in 2020. Teams within Facebook and outside workers contracted by Facebook monitor the platform for users and content that violate its policies against what the company calls Dangerous Organizations and Individuals. The research, which is currently under peer review, comes at a moment when many tech companies, including Facebook, are slashing their trust and safety departments, and content moderation efforts are being vilified and abandoned. “You need sustained content moderation - adaptive, sophisticated, content moderation, because these groups are adaptive and sophisticated.” “What this study says is, you can’t play whack-a-mole once and walk away,” said Beth Goldberg, Jigsaw’s head of research and development. The paper, from George Washington University and Jigsaw, a unit inside Google that explores threats to open societies - including hate and toxicity, violent extremism and censorship - found that after Facebook’s June 2020 ban of the Boogaloo militia movement, the content “boomeranged,” first declining and then bouncing back to nearly its original volume. Eighteen months after Facebook banned communities and users connected with the “Boogaloo” anti-government movement, the group’s extremist ideas were back and flourishing on the social media platform, new research found.
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