AWB listed 'hate group' on Facebook blacklist

Four South African organisations, three of them right-wing Afrikaner nationalist groups, are on a Facebook blacklist. The list, compiled under Facebook's Dangerous Individuals and Organisations policy, has been published by The Intercept and features thousands of organisations considered a threat by the social media company. The company has become known for being reticent to share the list and other policies related to what it views as dangerous groups, says a News24 report. The organisations have been categorised into the sections Hate, Crime, Terrorism, Militarised Social Movements and Violent Non-State Actors. The Numbers Gang has been listed under the ‘crime’ category. The 'hate' category listed the Afrikaner Resistance Movement or Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB), the Ossewabrandwag and the White Liberation Movement (Blanke Bevrydingsbeweging). Both the Ossewabrandwag and the White Liberation Movement are no longer active. The Ossewabrandwag was formed in 1939 as an anti-British and pro-German organisation during World War II. At the end of the war, the organisation was absorbed into the National Party. The more notorious White Liberation Movement was a neo-Nazi organisation and the first far-right organisation banned in apartheid SA. The organisation was unbanned in 1990 and was then officially disbanded. The AWB is the only SA organisation under the 'hate' category that is still active. The AWB is a white supremacist paramilitary organisation founded in 1973 by Eugène Terre'Blanche. AWB leader Steyn von Rönge says there has been no communication from Facebook regarding the list. ‘I don't know why this is Facebook's standpoint, but it is completely unjustified,’ he says.