Update: Facebook Restricts Ads on Controversial Pages

Facebook vowed to crack down on offensive content on its site back in May after multiple advertisers — including auto giant Nissan — pulled their ads from the social networking site. At the time, Facebook was facing protests from social activist groups — especially those associated with gender equality — due to the company’s failure to remove pages dedicated to gender-based hate speech and misogynistic content.

In May, Facebook said of the issue,”…it has become clear that our systems to identify and remove hate speech have failed to work as effectively as we would like, particularly around issues of gender-based hate.

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