Facebook said it took action on 22.1 million pieces of hate speech content in the third quarter, about 95 per cent of which was proactively identified, compared to 22.5 million in the previous quarter.

"We learned that the posts were in fact made by an employee ... . We do not tolerate any behaviour of this kind."

Liberal MP Anthony Housefather and Conservative MP Marty Morantz are joining an international task force aimed at making web giants do more to combat anti-Semitism online.

The national director for the League of Human Rights for B'Nai Brith says they're seeing an ever-growing amount of anti-semitism on the internet.

Facebook keeps telling critics that it is doing everything it can to rid its service of hate, abuse and misinformation. And the company's detractors keep not buying it.

Sources say Facebook executives offered no new details on how they would tackle hate speech, pointing instead to past statements that advertisers say don't go far enough.

Starbucks said Sunday that its actions were not part of the #StopHateforProfit campaign, but that it is pausing its social ads while talking with civil rights organizations and its media partners about how to stop hate speech online.

Their first client got a confederate tattoo, that she'd had since she was 18, covered up.

The graffiti also drew the ire of Kemba Mitchell head of the West Island Black Community Association (WIBCA),

A Canadian expert says that while the vandalism that targeted three buildings Wednesday was an expression of extreme anger, it wasn't a hate crime.