Here&#x27;s an interesting experiment concerning Facebook censoring certain types of &#x27;hate&#x27;, while leaving others alone:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=i3KfQoFHEDs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=i3KfQoFHEDs</a><p>facit: two pages were opened on the same date, one inciting to violence against &#x27;jews&#x27; (the page was called &#x27;Stop Israelis&#x27; but the message seems clear), the other doing the same against &#x27;palestinians&#x27;. After posting more and more - and stronger and stronger - messages to both pages the makers reported both pages to Facebook. Result? The page inciting to violence against &#x27;palestinians&#x27; was closed the same day, with an explanation from Facebook that said page was &#x27;found to be in violation of their community standards&#x27;. The other page, which was identical in most parts except for the fact that it was &#x27;jews&#x27; which were targeted was not closed, with Facebook answering that &#x27;it was not found to violate any of their standards&#x27;.<p>When this brew up a bit of a storm on the &#x27;net Facebook eventually rescinded and closed the page, explaining it away as &#x27;an error&#x27;.<p>What I suspect is that there is a large peer pressure inside the Facebook censor team to align to a certain - and probably narrow - spectrum of acceptable views, one which traditionally is called &#x27;left-wing&#x27; or &#x27;liberal&#x27; even though both names don&#x27;t seem to fit the ideas being espoused. Living in Sweden I&#x27;ve seen the same concept at work in the traditional media, this has gotten so strong that the word for it in Swedish - åsiktskorridor (literally &#x27;view corridor&#x27;, roughly &#x27;acceptable views&#x27;) - has become a mainstream word. This has lead to an explosion in the number of &#x27;alternative&#x27; media channels as well as a record low level of trust in the &#x27;traditional&#x27; media.<p>In other words, Facebook would do well to study the Swedish situation and learn from the mistakes made here if they don&#x27;t want to end up in the same situation: mistrusted, deemed unreliable and outdated.