Facebook bans Alex Jones, Milo Yiannopoulos and other far-right figures
by Kari Paul in San Francisco and Jim Waterson in Lon from Technology | The Guardian on (#4EBVY)
The company has struggled to control far-right hate speech on the platform in recent years
Facebook banned several prominent accounts promoting white nationalism on the platform on Thursday.
Accounts barred from Facebook, as well as its subsidiary Instagram, as part of the new enforcement include the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, the far-right troll Milo Yiannopoulos and the anti-Muslim figurehead Laura Loomer. Jones was previously banned from Facebook but still had an account on Instagram, which was no longer live as of Thursday.
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