Facebook to ban white nationalism after mosque attacks

The move, which comes into force next week, comes as Prince William prepares to visit Christchurch mosque attack survivors.

Facebook has vowed to ban praise, support and representations of white nationalism and white separatism.

In a blog post called Standing Against Hate, Facebook said the ban would come into force next week and would also apply to Instagram.

The move comes almost two weeks after a white nationalist killed 50 people in two mosques in the New Zealand city of Christchurch.

The terrorist, an Australian, live-streamed his attack on Facebook and the world's largest social media platform was among those criticised for being slow to take the footage down.

Facebook and other social media websites have also long been under pressure to do more about hate, fake news and abusive posts.

White supremacy was already under Facebook's rules about hateful content but white nationalist or separatist content had not been deemed by the site as racist.