Zuckerberg must end far right's fundraising on Facebook – Tom Watson
by Mattha Busby and Josh Halliday from Technology | The Guardian on (#44KH3)
Labour's deputy leader demands action after the Guardian's investigation
The deputy Labour leader, Tom Watson, has demanded that Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg never again allows far-right activists to fundraise on the network, criticising him for having a "contempt for social responsibility".
A Guardian investigation on Friday found that a hidden global network of US thinktanks, rightwing Australians and Russian trolls were providing financial, political and moral support to Tommy Robinson, who has more than 1 million followers on Facebook - his main social network after Twitter suspended him for claiming "Islam promotes killing people" in March.
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