The “Dangerous Persons and Organizations List” (DIO), leaked by The Intercept, consists of three tiers. In the first tier, which is described as the most dangerous people, there are people who can cause serious harm offline (also outside the internet). Most of these first-tier people, who seem to be in line with US foreign policy, work in organizations in the US, the Middle East, and South Asia.
Facebook refers to people in the second tier as “Non-State Violent Offenders”, which are often people who have participated in violent acts abroad that are considered dangerous. The third tier includes right-wing militias that have the potential to harm the US government. By the way, let’s mention that there are many names from Turkey on the list.
The current list also includes people who died a long time ago.
To summarize, Facebook’s blacklist is 53.7% with terrorism, 23.3% with militarized social movements, 17% with hate groups, 4.9% with criminals and 1% with non-state consists of people involved in violence.
The Intercept states that Facebook has received many complaints to publish this list, but the company has never agreed to it. At the same time, the news organization stated that the list together with the list it published was aimed at limiting people’s personal freedoms, “Facebook’s DIO policy has become an irresponsible system that punishes certain communities disproportionately.”
In the news written with the report, one of the remarkable details was that the people on the list were politicians, writers, charities, hundreds of music groups and people who died a long time ago. While Facebook was accused of targeting people for having such a confusing list, it also gained support for having such a list so that it would not act negligently.
You can click here to view Facebook’s blacklist of 4,000 people.
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