{"id":21145,"date":"2020-06-06T14:37:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-06T14:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/2020\/06\/06\/facebook-moves-to-limit-spread-of-extremist-boogaloo-pages-and-groups\/"},"modified":"2020-06-06T14:37:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-06T14:37:00","slug":"facebook-moves-to-limit-spread-of-extremist-boogaloo-pages-and-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/06\/06\/facebook-moves-to-limit-spread-of-extremist-boogaloo-pages-and-groups\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook moves to limit spread of extremist \u2018boogaloo\u2019 pages and groups"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/span>Illustration by Alex Castro \/ The Verge<\/small><\/p>\n

Facebook is limiting the spread of pages and groups linked with the word “boogaloo,” an internet slang term used in some far-right extremist circles to refer to the idea of an impending second American Civil War, as first reported byReuters<\/em>. The boogaloo term has more recently evolved into a disjointed anti-government movement with various and at times conflicting views.<\/p>\n

Facebook says it will no longer recommend boogaloo pages and groups to users and is demoting them in search results, Facebook tells The Verge<\/em>. The change was made on June 2nd. On May 1st, Facebook updated its Violence and Incitement policy to ban boogaloo and similar terms when used with images or statements depicting armed violence.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, the FBI arrested three men in Nevada who self-identified with the boogaloo movement on terrorism-related charges for plotting to incite violence at an anti-police protest in Las Vegas. More and more self-described boogaloo members, many of which are also gun rights advocates, are using protests against racism and police brutality as cover to to promote anti-government demonstrations involving displays of firearms, CNN reports.<\/p>\n

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