Facebook Continues to Support White Supremacy

by Joseph Say and Diana Martinez Alexander

Can we Talk?

What are we allowed to say in response to the hateful diatribes of toxic masculinity and white supremacists? Which platforms are safe spaces to inform and codify resistance to the status quo and work for change?

As a community organizers in Houston we are exhausted with Facebook. We have seen relevant communication participation drop because of FB’s algorithms and how it allows members of our community to see important actions.

It’s become obvious that we must rely on phone trees, and old fashioned email lists to organize, because Facebook has a white supremacy problem. Not only does its algorithms suck the posting of our events into a black hole. It limits us to a handful of invites, thus further diminishing our ability to publicize important events, unless we pay their exuberant advertising fees. We are having important voices in our community face bans for calling out White Supremacy and Toxic masculinity. Any attempt to use those combination of words, leads to a ban.

We are a zero funds organization that rely on volunteers and hard work. FB doesn’t seem to care. We are now on a quest to find a better platform, and a better way to organized, because it’s obvious that Facebook cares only for profit and supporting the racist and sexist status quo.

So we ask again: Can we talk?