# Meta Declines to Remove Horrific Posts Calling for Violence Against Muslims, Calling Them “Cockroaches” and Saying It’s “Time for Hunting” > Source: > Published: 2026-08-18 14:27:13+00:00 Back in 2022, the Center for Countering Digital Hate released a blistering report finding that social media platforms Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok all [failed to remove](https://www.arabnews.com/node/2072876/media) 90 percent of Islamophobic content from their platforms. Facebook, in particular, had only stepped in to moderate seven out of 125 posts flagged by the Center, in direct violation of its [own community guidelines](https://github.com/OpenTermsArchive/pga-versions/blob/c200da1f051d709127b10653550d6fa2d2d4365a/Facebook/Community%20Guidelines.md#1) on “expressions of contempt.” Fast forward four years, and it’s clear the platform has only become worse. As we [reported over the weekend](https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/facebook-ai-slop-violence-muslim-americans), the social media platform is currently teeming with various forms of Islamophobic and anti-Arab content. It’s a noxious blend of propaganda and misinformation, with often AI-generated imagery whipping viewers into a bigoted frenzy; many who interact with the miasma of online hatred then post more intolerance, harassment, and calls for violence — both from the state and by private citizens — against Muslim Americans. While Facebook’s older, more conservative user base has [long been](https://toronto.citynews.ca/2017/04/20/facebook-apologizes-sponsored-pro-islamophobia-ad/) a haven for Islamophobia, the recent frenzy is reaching a fever pitch directed at residents of Dearborn, Michigan, who make up the largest Arab-American community in the United States. Much of that vitriol can be traced back to white supremacist social media personality Jake Lang, who recently shared an [AI-generated flyer](https://www.facebook.com/reel/1370919688349906) calling on his reactionary followers to wage a “crusader march on Dearborn” on Tuesday, August 18th. The post calls on Lang’s followers to “stop [the] Islamification of America,” and features imagery of Catholic crusaders charging at Arabs with swords drawn — an overt reference to the medieval crusades, during which Catholic soldiers [slaughtered millions](https://apholt.com/2019/01/30/death-estimates-for-the-crusades/) of Muslims, Jews, and Orthodox Christians. Despite dripping in obvious references to anti-Muslim violence, Facebook refuses to take the post down. After reporting it to the platform for going against its own policies on “calling for violence,” we received a seemingly automated message exactly one minute later explaining that Facebook “didn’t remove the post.” Plenty of other posts remain up despite having been reported to Facebook for similar grounds. One [post](https://www.facebook.com/bluematters/posts/pfbid02Cw1ba9v98RSzBG3bu4NmKPrL73r5DLvQYAveehmPtRZKD3sMbC5eyT2NpJ15a3uDl?comment_id=1016446601396683) saying that “it’s time for hunting” hasn’t been touched a day after it was reported, and neither has a [comment](https://www.facebook.com/futurism/posts/pfbid0B8pqr2oJtj4fRXoQC7txrwCD18UzLy8AJwt5bmQYbiLzQ3pTVnYashYrsvsprSTkl?comment_id=2285435998883586) on *Futurism’s* own post calling Muslims “f**kin rag headed pedophiles.” Another [comment](https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid02tT7VskJ1kGVQyn37cg4EgGW4JsQWRiwFZ2gcjEBUnTttQbtjT3Ym4RRx3ZNjNtEil&id=100043367242229&comment_id=2109989536303136&reply_comment_id=902211202570449) posted under a news bulletin about the Dearborn hysteria literally says “I hope we kill people” in reply to a comment seething that the “first shot has to be heard somewhere,” neither of which have been taken down after we reported them for calling for violence. And though a number of posts *Futurism* flagged to Facebook’s parent company Meta as part of a request for comment have been hidden, more remain up, even after our initial reporting on Sunday. One of the most flagrant examples is a comment — under a reel containing AI-generated imagery — which calls Muslims “cockroaches that have infested our beautiful country” and insists we need to “remove each and every moslim [sic] man, woman, and child.” Rhetoric comparing humans to bugs clearly falls under “dehumanizing” content at least, and calls for violence at worst. There are hundreds of years of precedent here: as far back as 17th century England, people in powerful positions have invoked ideas of “parasitism” and “vermin” to [justify ethnic violence](https://www.jstor.org/stable/1354592). The rhetorical move has come [back into vogue](https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/08/11/likening-people-bugs-political-weapon-is-dangerous/) over the past few years, fueled by increasingly popular far-right figures like Lang and his contemporary Nick Fuentes. Put together, it comes as little surprise that a company with Facebook’s [genocide-enabling track record](https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/asa16/5933/2022/en/) would act so flagrantly in service of these hard-line reactionaries. There’s no question that this kind of content is wildly popular with the platform’s user base, and therefore financially beneficial for Meta to propagate — and at the end of the day, isn’t that what it’s all about? **More on Meta: **[Facebook AI Slop Has Grown So Dark That You May Not Be Prepared](https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/facebook-ai-slop-dark)