Facebook Removes Racist Memes Page Following User Uproar

Angry Facebook users demanded the social network remove a page called "Aboriginal Memes," complaining the page was full of racist jokes about Australia's indigenous population. Though it did not respond to the requests as quickly as some users would have liked, Facebook took down the page Tuesday.

The disgruntled users took their campaign beyond Facebook, starting a petition on online advocacy platform Change.org, "Facebook: Immediately remove the racist page called 'Aboriginal Memes'." The below image, taken from the petition, shows one of the memes which had been posted on the Facebook page.

Facebook tends not to reply to inquiries regarding specific pages, and did not respon…
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