Facebook's handling of Alex Jones is a microcosm of its content policy problem
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Summary
In this instance, a group of executives at Facebook went hands-on in determining if an Instagram post by the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones violated the platform’s community standards.To make that determination, 20 Facebook and Instagram executives hashed it out over the Jones post, which depicted a mural known as “False Profits” by the artist Mear One. Facebook began debating the post after it was flagged by Business Insider for kicking up anti semitic comments on Wednesday.The company removed 23 of 500 comments on the post that it interpreted to be in clear violation of Facebook policy.
As said here by Taylor Hatmaker