Explained: How Facebook handles speech in ‘secret’ groups

Here's a look at how the social network handles similarly offensive material when it's posted inside the more private corners of the service, in the online gatherings known as ``groups.''

US Border Patrol agents are under fire for posting offensive messages in a “secret” Facebook group that included sexually explicit posts about US Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and dismissive references to the deaths of migrants in US custody. The existence of that group was reported Monday by ProPublica. Prior to that, few people outside the group had ever heard of it.