If Facebook is paying Nazis to post in Australia, you can damn well bet they are paying Nazis to post here:
Meta was paying out-and-out neo-Nazis to post on Facebook, an investigation from Australia’s ABC News found.
These pages and individual creators posted content that appeared to be in clear violation of Facebook’s own hate speech policies. Nonetheless, they were able to earn money on their posts through the platform’s “Content Monetization” program — which is invitation-only.
But wait! It gets worse!
One receiving payouts from Meta was Hugo Lennon, a known far-right agitator and white nationalist with ties to neo-Nazi groups. Lennon was taken away by police for hurling racial abuse at India’s prime minister Narendra Modi during his stay at a Melbourne hotel, and is believed to be one of the organizers behind an “anti-immigration” march on a sacred Indigenous site in the city last year.
Lennon, in other words, was a known quantity, and Meta should’ve been under no illusions about who they were paying to drive engagement on the platform. Still, the investigation found that he’s been receiving payments from Facebook since September 2025.
There’s a lot of we did not see that coming (See what I did there?), but the thing is Meta has loose moderation, they also have their own AI agents. The cost of moderation is absolutely nothing to them.
They are okay with Australia’s Nazis posting because it drives engagement there (they get advertising revenue from more clicks and eyes). Even if you abstract that to just the business model, it is still eff’ing Nazis getting paid for hate speech by a company Mark Faceberg owns.
He’s a eff’ing disgrace.
Full-stop.
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