How Britain First Pays Facebook To Push Anti-Islam Videos Into Your News Feed

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Facebook said the promoted Britain First videos still available on the network met its community standards and it would not stop the far-right activist group

Times of Ahmad | News Watch | UK desk
Source/Credit: BuzzFeed UK
By Jim Waterson | December 15, 2016

The social network is receiving money from the far-right group to promote anti-Islam videos. 

Facebook has accepted thousands of pounds from the far-right group Britain First to promote anti-Islam videos on the social network, BuzzFeed News has established.

Britain First, which campaigns against immigration and Muslims, spent the money pushing sponsored videos and posts in front of millions of people.

However, Facebook said most of the posts met its community standards and it would continue to accept money from the group.

In one video, which Britain First paid Facebook to promote, members of the far-right group invade a halal slaughterhouse and accuse the butchers of offering up animals to “Satan”. They then claim sales of the meat are being used to fund Hamas, Hezbollah, al-Qaeda, and ISIS before concluding with a message urging people to vote for the far-right group.

In another sponsored Facebook video Britain First leader Jayda Fransen calls on Polish people living in the UK to support the right-wing group and attack Islam.

Fransen, who last month was convicted of religiously aggravated harassment after abusing a Muslim woman, urges eastern Europeans to join the group, declaring: “We have a common enemy and that enemy is Islam.”

Another clip, heavily promoted using paid Facebook adverts, saw six Britain First members invade and occupy a “sharia court” in London while staff hid behind a door.

Facebook said the promoted Britain First videos still available on the network met its community standards and it would not stop the far-right activist group, which is also a registered political party, from paying to advertise on the platform.


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