Following the Tel Aviv shooting, members of an Israeli ZAKA - Identification, Extraction and Rescue team work at the scene of a shooting outside Max Brenner restaurant in Sarona Market on June 8, 2016 in Tel Aviv, Israel. (Photo : Getty Images/ Lior Mizrahi)
Facebook has been blamed to be partly responsible in the recent violent attacks as Israel's police minister believes the social network giant failed to remove hate speech which resulted in the series of unfortunate incidents.
One father of 10 children was brutally killed in a drive-by shooting incident while a 13-year-old was stabbed to death in her own bed. Part of the blame is being cast on Facebook as most of the attacks stem from the social network.
Public Security Minister of Israel Gilad Erdan said that Facebook fails to take down the posts which are filled with hate and that they fail to cooperate with proper authorities on such matters, Bloomberg has learned. The minister adds that Facebook has transformed into a "monster."
It is no secret that Facebook has billions of users every day. Not every post can be monitored by their employees and there is a huge percentage of negative status updates and photos that are aimed towards hurting others.
Erdan goes on to say that Facebook sabotages the work of the police in Israel which unfortunately leads to such violent attacks, Digital Trends reported. The police minister was speaking on the local Channel 2 TV station in Israel.
It is not the first time that Facebook has been targeted by people as part of the problem in today's violent, racist, sexist and negative society. Israel has also been targeting Twitter and YouTube in the past for influencing the youth and others to commit nefarious acts.
Facebook issued a statement saying that they do cooperate with not only the police but policymakers and other safety organizations across the world. The social network giant said that they have "community standards" that are designed to let people know and understand what is prohibited on Facebook and that there are tools that other users can use to report posts that violate their regulations.
With billions of users daily, it is certainly impossible for Facebook to monitor each one and it is up to the people to help report such negative posts. Google and Facebook have also been reportedly using a more automated response in taking down flagged posts on their networks.
