The
Australian Muslim Advocacy Network alleges the
Social Media giant allows ‘anti-Islam’ pages to host hateful content about Middle Eastern, African, South Asian and Asian people
Facebook is facing a complaint under Australia’s Racial Discrimination Act that the company is not doing enough to moderate against hate speech.
The Australian Muslim Advocacy Network (Aman) announced on Wednesday it had lodged a complaint under sections nine and 18(c) of the act with the Australian
Human Rights Commission over what the group says is Facebook’s failure to rein in hateful speech on its platform.