Facebook CEO: Our failure to remove Kenosha military page was an ‘operational error’

A clear violation of the page Facebook (FB)Zuckerberg admitted the rules against the violent military in a video posted on his Facebook profile on Friday, saying “a mob” had also reported the page before the assassination of two protesters, Joseph Rosenbum and Anthony Huber.

Just last week, Facebook announced that it would crack down on military organizations that advocate violence or talk about the possibility of violence. But in its first week of implementation, the lack of policy implementation led to the spread of violent messages on the platform that had a direct bearing on Kenosha, where protests erupted after Jacob Blake’s police shooting.

Zuckerberg said in the video, “What’s going on in Kenosha … really scary.”

But Facebook’s contractors who received initial reports from users about the military pages said they “didn’t like it.”

“On the second review, by doing it more sensitively, the team responsible for dangerous organizations violated these policies, and we took it down,” Zuckerberg said.

But, by then, the armed incident that was propagated by the page had received at least 2,600 responses and at least one right-wing conspiracy had caught the attention of the website.

Zuckerberg said Facebook is now “actively looking for content out there” of those who appreciate the shooting.

“We continue to enforce our policies, and continue to develop policies to be able to identify more potentially dangerous organizations, and to improve our implementation to move beyond this,” he said.