Thread by @carolecadwalla

This is live now & is already absolutely chilling. @heidibeirich is one of foremost experts in armed militias currently talking about violent white supremacists organizing & recruiting on Facebook

https://twitter.com/FBoversight/status/1316771672418967552

‘Facebook is a handmaiden to armed violence’ - @heidibeirich

‘Facebook has blood on its hands. This has to change NOW.’

@JGo4Justice of @freepress announces the new Real Facebook Oversight Board’s demands to Facebook. You there @andymstone & @nickclegg? Can we have a comment please?

‘This is not about free speech. This is about anarchy. This is about putting people at risk. This is about Facebook acting like the supreme leader of a sovereign nation.’ - @derricknaacp

.@rashadrobinson bringing the 🔥🔥🔥. ‘Facebook doesn’t care who dies. As long as it grows’

‘This has been life & death for Muslims for many years. For a lot of people this feels like an emergency now. It’s been for an emergency for our community for years’ - Naheed Qureshi of @MuslimAdvocates

‘I think it’s inevitable that there will be armed violence. But this makes me so angry. Because people of colour have fought for so long. I just don’t think that Facebook realises has brought us to this place’ - @heidibeirich

‘We have seen this all through govt, when you have laissez-fairy govt, people are abused. There need to be guardrails one place to ensure that this does not lead to our demise’ - @DerrickNAACP