Facebook Bars 'Stereotypes About Jewish People Controlling World'

The statement,which appeared in Facebooks latest Community Enforcement Standards report, said the social media giant had established new teams and task forces to combat hate.

Were alsoupdating our policiesto more specifically account for certain kinds of implicit hate speech, such as content depicting blackface, or stereotypes about Jewish people controlling the world, the statement read.

As the COVID-19 pandemic evolves, well continue adapting our content review process and working to improve our technology and bring more reviewers back online, the statement concluded.

Arsen Ostrovsky, an international human rights lawyer and head of the Israel-Jewish Congress, said the update was a step in the right direction but not enough.

Facebook needs to be commended for engaging with the Jewish community, to listening to our concerns and taking meaningful and pro-active steps to tackle the antisemitism permeating through their platform, Ostrovsky told Breitbart News.

He added, however, that much more needed to be done in order to draw the right balance between a vibrant expression of speech and rooting out hatred & incitement against the Jewish community which, he said, constituted aviolation of Facebooks own rules.

He called on Facebook to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism, which is the most exhaustive and widely accepted definition in the world, that includes not only attacks against Jewish people, but Antisemitism manifesting in attacks against the State of Israel.

Adopting and implementing the IHRA definition as the cornerstone of Facebooks hate speech policy on anti-Semitism provides a base standard from which to identify relevant offending material and take appropriate action, while maintaining Facebook as a safe, open and vibrant community.