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Melissa Joskow / Audrey Bowler / Media Matters

An anti-Semitic Telegram channel targeting Jews created a Facebook page. Facebook said it doesn't violate its policies.

The channel also created a Twitter account, violating Twitter’s policies

Written by Alex Kaplan

Published 02/25/20 4:09 PM EST

Updated 02/27/20 8:15 AM EST

Update (2/27/20): Facebook and Twitter have now suspended the Telegram channel’s accounts on their platforms, with the former taking nearly 48 hours to take action and the latter taking more than 48 hours. In a statement to a reporter for New Zealand’s Newsroom, a Facebook spokesperson said, “We have removed this Page for violating our Community Standards,” which contradicts the platform’s initial review of the page.

An anti-Semitic Telegram channel known for targeting Jews created new Facebook and Twitter accounts to cross-post its harassing content. Despite their policies on harassment and hate speech, neither Facebook nor Twitter has taken action on the new accounts, with Facebook claiming the page does not violate its policies.

The channel, as Mother Jones' Ali Breland wrote in September, has been compiling “an online list of Jewish people who are critical of white nationalism” since it was created last summer. The list includes “archived tweets from individuals criticizing white supremacy, misogyny, and other types of bigotry,” along with tweets “in which the person in question describes themselves as Jewish.” Breland noted that the list “includes many who are not public figures, or who have only modest profiles as rank-and-file activists, journalists, or social media figures.” Breland added that the channel had become “the fastest-growing alt-right group” on Telegram at that time. In February, he tweeted that other white nationalist Telegram channels had forwarded the channel's “content around the time of” a pro-gun rally in Richmond, Virginia, that white nationalists had organized around.

On February 25, the channel posted that “Operation ‘Mass Kvetching’ is underway,” and urged its supporters to “follow [it] on the following platforms,” posting links to both Facebook and Twitter accounts.

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On its Facebook page, the account was already cross-posting its content targeting multiple people for harassment (Media Matters has removed and blurred out images and names from the posts). Despite explicit policies prohibiting bullying, harassment, and hate speech, Facebook wrote in response to Media Matters flagging the page that the page “was reviewed and it doesn’t violate our Community Standards.” Facebook has also recently failed to enforce its policies on harassment and extremism.

Additionally, the channel’s new Twitter page -- which is also cross-posting its harassing content -- comes a few months after Twitter had permanently banned another account the channel had created on the platform. That means the new account is evading a Twitter suspension -- a clear violation of Twitter rules. It is also violating Twitter’s policies prohibiting “hateful conduct” and “targeted harassment.” But as of this posting, Twitter has taken no action against the account. The platform has repeatedly struggled to detect accounts evading their bans, and it continues to have a white nationalist problem.

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