Facebook is cracking down on anti-government extremist 'boogaloos,' but it has reportedly been profiting off boogaloo ads calling for violence for months (FB)

• Facebook on Tuesday banned hundreds of accounts and groups associated with the "boogaloo" movement, designating a subset of the anti-government extremist network as "violent."
• But Facebook took money from boogaloo-affiliated advertisers for several months before its ban, BuzzFeed News reported.
• Some of those ads suggest violence, despite Facebook's claims that it is cracking down on such content.
• Facebook has been facing growing pressure to take stronger action against hate speech and racism on its platform.
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Facebook is banning a network of anti-government extremist "boogaloos" from its platform, calling the group "violent" and designating it as a "dangerous organization," the company announced Tuesday.

"This is the latest step in our commitment to ban people who proclaim a violent mission from using our platform," the company said, adding that it had banned "220 Facebook accounts, 95 Instagram accounts, 28 Pages and 106 groups that currently comprise the network."

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