Blackface photos banned from Facebook and Instagram

Facebook and its sister service Instagram will ban images of blackface and content that depicts Jewish people controlling the world as part of a global crackdown on harmful stereotypes. The social media giant said it will remove all "implicit" hate speech used to "disparage, intimidate or exclude" people based on their race or religion, as well as more explicit attacks. The ban, which comes into force later this month, will apply to "caricatures of black people" that make use of blackface, as we