Facebook has been lagging in removing posts celebrating the Bondi Beach massacre, the Community Security Trust claimed in a report published exclusively by The Guardian on Tuesday.
The social media site was also accused of allowing content praising the Islamic State terror group to remain online.
CST assured that many of the UK-based profiles sharing content celebrating the attack, which saw 15 people murdered at a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney earlier this month, were reported to the UK’s counterterror police.
One post, showing the aftermath of the attack, was captioned “Allah is the greatest and praise to Allah.”
Another post, accompanied by a photo of one of the two Bondi gunmen, was captioned, “The coming years of art and hell,” and included praise for a leader of ISIS.
Facebook promises to remove posts celebrating Bondi Beach massacre
Facebook told the Guardian that it was removing some posts and that several had already been taken down.
A spokesperson for Meta, which owns Facebook, told the Guardian, “The content was removed for violating our policies around dangerous organizations and individuals.”
Dave Rich, the director of policy for the CST, said, “The sheer volume of IS-supporting accounts promoting terrorist content on Facebook is deeply alarming, and the posts celebrating the Bondi terrorist attack are utterly nauseating."
“Yet again, social media companies are incapable of meeting even their most basic of responsibilities and are putting all of us in danger as a result. This simply should not be happening any more. We will be calling on Ofcom to urgently investigate Meta’s failings and to take strong action where possible.”
The CST told The Jerusalem Post, "The sheer volume of IS-supporting accounts promoting terrorist content on Facebook is deeply alarming, and the posts celebrating the Bondi terrorist attack are utterly nauseating. Yet again, social media companies are incapable of meeting even their most basic of responsibilities and are putting all of us in danger as a result. This simply should not be happening anymore. We will be calling on Ofcom to urgently investigate Meta’s failings, and to take strong action where possible."