Facebook slammed over anti-Semitic ‘Jewish remains’ photo

Facebook has been accused of “enabling vicious Jewish hatred” after telling users an image depicting human remains on a shovel below the tag line “How to pick up Jewish chicks” did not breach its standards.

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Just days after back flipping on its decision to censor an iconic Vietnam War photo of a naked girl escaping a napalm bombing, the social media giant is again under fire over its handling of posts reported as offensive.

In reply to complaints about the shovel image – which was widely shared, “liked” 21,000 times, and received more than 37,000 comments – Facebook said: “We reviewed the post you reported for displaying hate speech and found it doesn’t violate our community standards.”

Read the article by Beau Donnelly in the Sydney Morning Herald.