See also: To protect and slur: Inside hate groups on Facebook, police officers trade racist memes, conspiracy theories and Islamophobia, The Plain View Project is a database of public Facebook...
See also:
To protect and slur: Inside hate groups on Facebook, police officers trade racist memes, conspiracy theories and Islamophobia,
The Plain View Project is a database of public Facebook posts and comments made by current and former police officers from several jurisdictions across the United States.
Auditors say Facebook’s policy on white supremacy is still “too narrow.” That’s because it solely prohibits explicit praise, support or representation of the terms “white nationalism” or “white separatism,” but does not technically prohibit references to those terms and ideologies. “The narrow scope of the policy leaves up content that expressly espouses white nationalist ideology without using the term ‘white nationalist,'” the report states. “As a result, content that would cause the same harm is permitted to remain on the platform.”
A. C. Thompson, the author of the ProPublica piece, has a remarkable body of work exposing organized organized hate groups and the complicity of "law enforcement".
Sometimes it feels like the word "fascism" is overused or hyperbolic, but then we see how public agencies are increasingly aligned and realize we've actually been far too trusting and complacent.
According to WikiPedia it's a little over 45k That includes agricultural specialists and probably all the support staff as well. But it probably doesn't include the legions of federal contractors.
The issue is it's not really clear how closed the group is to non-agents. It's likely it could just be drawing from across the agency, agents or not. Ultimately that becomes a question of "are...
The issue is it's not really clear how closed the group is to non-agents. It's likely it could just be drawing from across the agency, agents or not.
Ultimately that becomes a question of "are ~50% of these people confirmed shitheads or merely 25%?" so it doesn't change the conclusions much.
Full disclosure: I worked for DHS at the headquarters level under the Obama Administration. Even back then, CBP and ICE were absolutely toxic and racist and only barely held in check by the administration's political appointees. I left before the election, but I can only imagine after 2016 when the political appointees left it's the lunatics running the madhouse.
See also:
To protect and slur: Inside hate groups on Facebook, police officers trade racist memes, conspiracy theories and Islamophobia,
The Plain View Project is a database of public Facebook posts and comments made by current and former police officers from several jurisdictions across the United States.
Auditors say Facebook’s policy on white supremacy is still “too narrow.” That’s because it solely prohibits explicit praise, support or representation of the terms “white nationalism” or “white separatism,” but does not technically prohibit references to those terms and ideologies. “The narrow scope of the policy leaves up content that expressly espouses white nationalist ideology without using the term ‘white nationalist,'” the report states. “As a result, content that would cause the same harm is permitted to remain on the platform.”
A. C. Thompson, the author of the ProPublica piece, has a remarkable body of work exposing organized organized hate groups and the complicity of "law enforcement".
Sometimes it feels like the word "fascism" is overused or hyperbolic, but then we see how public agencies are increasingly aligned and realize we've actually been far too trusting and complacent.
According to WikiPedia it's a little over 45k
That includes agricultural specialists and probably all the support staff as well. But it probably doesn't include the legions of federal contractors.
The issue is it's not really clear how closed the group is to non-agents. It's likely it could just be drawing from across the agency, agents or not.
Ultimately that becomes a question of "are ~50% of these people confirmed shitheads or merely 25%?" so it doesn't change the conclusions much.
Full disclosure: I worked for DHS at the headquarters level under the Obama Administration. Even back then, CBP and ICE were absolutely toxic and racist and only barely held in check by the administration's political appointees. I left before the election, but I can only imagine after 2016 when the political appointees left it's the lunatics running the madhouse.