The ban includes the British National Party and Nick Griffin, the English Defense League and the National Front.
The list also includes Great Britain First, which was already banned, but this latter action prohibits support for it on any of the services of the American company.
It said it had taken the action because the people involved had declared a "violent or hateful mission".
"Individuals and organizations that spread hate, or attacks on the exclusion of others based on who they are, have no place on Facebook," the social network added in a statement.
The ban includes:
The British National Party and its former leader Nick Griffin
Great Britain First, its leader Paul Golding and former deputy leader Jayda Fransen
English Defense League and its founding member Paul Ray
Knights Templar International and its promoter Jim Dowson
National Front and his leader Tony Martin
Jack Renshaw, a neo-Nazi who killed a Labor member of parliament
A Facebook spokesperson clarified what would happen to the pages that the groups and people had visited their site. All names mentioned can not be present on a Facebook service.
Moreover, praise and support for the groups or named individuals would no longer be allowed.
The ban was "too late," said Yvette Cooper, chairman of the home affairs committee.
"For too long, social media companies have been facilitating extremist and hateful content online and benefiting from the poison," she added.
"They mostly failed extreme right-wing extremism because they don't even have the same coordination systems for platforms to work together as for Islamic extremism," she added.
Mrs Cooper said the measures were a "necessary first step" and should be strengthened by independent regulation and financial penalties for companies that were slow to remove material.
"We all know the terrible consequences that there can be if hateful, violent and illegal content can multiply," she said.
This current action, Facebook said, went beyond the restrictions placed on Britain last year when the official pages were removed due to breaking the site's community standards.
The latest promotion comes soon after Facebook said it would block "praise, support and representation of white nationalism and separatism" for the main app and Instagram.
Some controversial figures, such as Tommy Robinson, are already subject to prohibitions on the social network.
The list also includes Great Britain First, which was already banned, but this latter action prohibits support for it on any of the services of the American company.
It said it had taken the action because the people involved had declared a "violent or hateful mission".
"Individuals and organizations that spread hate, or attacks on the exclusion of others based on who they are, have no place on Facebook," the social network added in a statement.
The ban includes:
The British National Party and its former leader Nick Griffin
Great Britain First, its leader Paul Golding and former deputy leader Jayda Fransen
English Defense League and its founding member Paul Ray
Knights Templar International and its promoter Jim Dowson
National Front and his leader Tony Martin
Jack Renshaw, a neo-Nazi who killed a Labor member of parliament
A Facebook spokesperson clarified what would happen to the pages that the groups and people had visited their site. All names mentioned can not be present on a Facebook service.
Moreover, praise and support for the groups or named individuals would no longer be allowed.
The ban was "too late," said Yvette Cooper, chairman of the home affairs committee.
"For too long, social media companies have been facilitating extremist and hateful content online and benefiting from the poison," she added.
"They mostly failed extreme right-wing extremism because they don't even have the same coordination systems for platforms to work together as for Islamic extremism," she added.
Mrs Cooper said the measures were a "necessary first step" and should be strengthened by independent regulation and financial penalties for companies that were slow to remove material.
"We all know the terrible consequences that there can be if hateful, violent and illegal content can multiply," she said.
This current action, Facebook said, went beyond the restrictions placed on Britain last year when the official pages were removed due to breaking the site's community standards.
The latest promotion comes soon after Facebook said it would block "praise, support and representation of white nationalism and separatism" for the main app and Instagram.
Some controversial figures, such as Tommy Robinson, are already subject to prohibitions on the social network.
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