Facebook under fire to regulate hate and offensive content

Social networking site Facebook has come under pressure to better regulate its content as racist and offensive groups continue to proliferate on the site.Facebook has a ban on “content that is hateful [and] threatening” and a spokeswoman for the site said there was no place for racism “or any form of hate speech” on Facebook.”We will remove anything of this nature that is reported to us,” she said.
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