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‘HIGHLY PRIZED BOOKS’
The global giant says it bans “content that we determine is hate speech,” but has never specified how it defines “hate speech.”
Spencer Sunshine has researched and written about the U.S. far Right for over fifteen years. He is the author of 40 Ways to Fight Fascists: Street-Legal Tactics for Community Activists (PopMob, 2020), and is currently working on a book about how the splintering of the American Nazi Party led to the development of the ideas animating today’s neo-Nazi terrorists.
The global giant says it bans “content that we determine is hate speech,” but has never specified how it defines “hate speech.”
It’s a story about how purely anti-Semitic conspiracies get toned down and then circulated more broadly, while retaining the same storyline and targeting the same individuals.