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The deeply critical report highlights the tension between free expression and hate speech on the social network.

Facebook just received a scathing civil -rights audit. Civil-rights leaders want more companies to welcome this kind of independent scrutiny.

As protests erupted, the company offered kind gestures ... and allowed bigotry to stand.

The demands of the #StopHateForProfit campaign extend to structural reforms inside Facebook, including the appointment of a human-rights expert to advise the company.

For four days in July, Facebook ran an ad from a white-nationalist Facebook page.

Civil-rights activists seeking a crackdown on hate speech said the company had treated their meeting as an empty 'PR exercise'.

Civil-rights groups blasted Facebook's leadership after meeting with CEO Mark Zuckerberg and other executives to discuss the demands of a large advertiser boycott.

Facebook has been under fire for its handling of hate speech, with hundreds of companies pulling advertising dollars as part of the #StopHateForProfit boycott.

Civil-rights organizers said they remained unconvinced that the social network is taking enough action against hate speech and disinformation.

The audit shows that Facebook operates with glaring blind spots for hateful content and misinformation on the site.