Organized Hate Groups

North America

Policy Clarification

Organized Hate Groups
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We want to clarify what constitutes a removal under out Dangerous
Individuals and Organizations policy.
Recent incidents in the United States (i.e. Charlottesville) have shown that
there is potentially confusion about our hate org policies and the specific hate
orgs in specific markets.

 Organized Hate Groups
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Size: An organization, association, or group of three or more people.
Signals of membership: Group identifies by a name, sign, or symbol.
Ideology, statements, or physical actions attack individuals based on their
race, religious affiliation, nationalist, ethnicity, gender, sex, sexual orientation,
serious disease or disability.
Promotion of symbols primarily associated with other hate groups that meet
our criteria (e.g. Swastika).

 Organized Hate Groups
Definitions
Praise: An act that seeks to:
- Make the cause better in
the eyes of others.
- Align oneself with a
cause.
- Give cause a sense of
achievement.
- Show others the cause
has the poster’s stamp of
approval.

Represent: An act that
seeks to:
- Speak on behalf of a
cause.
- Relay messages
directed at a cause.
- Channel information
on behalf of a cause.
- Legitimize a cause.

Support: An action
that seeks to:
- Give material aid
to a subject.
- Lend advantage to
the subject.
- Improve the
financial status of
the subject.
- Further the
purpose or cause.

 Organized Hate Groups
Policy Clarification
Implementation Standards Language: REMOVE
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Praise, support or represent a hate organization
Praise, support or represent a living leader of a hate organization
Praise, support or represent a deceased leader of a hate organization
Praise, support or represent a living prominent member of a hate
organization
Praise, support or represent a deceased prominent member of a hate
organization
Praise, support or represent a person notable for physically attacking
persons based on their membership of a protected category

 Organized Hate Groups
Policy Clarification
Implementation Standards Language: REMOVE
This applies to any content including:
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Posts
Photos
Shares
Comments

 Organized Hate Groups
Policy Clarification
Implementation Standards Language: REMOVE
This applies to any entities including:
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Groups
Pages
Profiles

 Organized Hate Groups
How to add Hate Orgs and Figures
If any orgs are missing for a market, please follow this process:
Step 1: check potential/orgs/figures/bands for the following signals to see if they
are likely to get declared as hate org [links to internal pages]
Step 2: file a task with Policy using this form: [link to internal page] (option ‘Hate
Org’)
Step 3: Policy announces an org to be added (or closes the loop with you on the
task why not)

 Organized Hate Groups
Signals for Hate Groups
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Facebook classifies Hate Groups, Individuals, and figures based off of strong, medium, and weak
signals. The strongest signals are based off of violent activities [links to internal pages]
Strong: Individual is/was a founder, leader, or prominent member of a banned h8 org;
slogan/name/symbol calls for violence or uses dehumanizing language or slurs to attack people
based on their protected characteristics.
Medium: Leader(s)/prominent member(s) have already been banned as h8 figures;
slogan/name/symbol calls for violence or uses dehumanizing language or slurs to attack people
based on their protected characteristics.
Weak: Partnership or alliance with previously banned h8 org (e.g. share activities such as
participate in rallies together); individual received a guilty verdict/was proven to be in possession of
forbidden symbols or distribution of forbidden propaganda material.

 Organized Hate Groups (NA)
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The following organizations are examples of Hate Orgs originating in North
America. Historically they have been represented in Profiles, Pages, Groups,
and other entities on Facebook and Instagram.
Hate Orgs are market-agnostic. All orgs violate regardless of market and
locale.
This is not an exhaustive list. Please reference the ‘Hate Orgs List’ [link to
internal document] which contains all groups Facebook recognizes as
violating Hate Orgs around the world.
[Slides include Ku Klux Klan, Aryan Nations, National Socialist American
Labor Party, National Socialist Movement, Creativity Alliance/Creativity
Movement.]