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My #NAFO story started two years ago hunting Nazis for @Meta.
My team recorded 3,500+ accounts on Facebook and Instagram neo-Nazi, accelerationist, or just plain old garden variety extremist assholes.
I didn't really think much of it until I bothered counting them.
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My team recorded 3,500+ accounts on Facebook and Instagram neo-Nazi, accelerationist, or just plain old garden variety extremist assholes.
I didn't really think much of it until I bothered counting them.
(🧵)
In June of '21 I sampled 491 accounts we'd sent for deplatforming over the past six months.
When I did the math and saw that less than 8% of them were getting removed, that's when that job really ended, I realize now.
Because that job was basically a lie.
When I did the math and saw that less than 8% of them were getting removed, that's when that job really ended, I realize now.
Because that job was basically a lie.
What was happening then, and still is now, is no better than a rather large game of whack-a-mole played by Palantir alumni and wannabes inside Meta.
This would be fine, if they were actually removing the bad shit.
They aren't. They actually hide it.
This would be fine, if they were actually removing the bad shit.
They aren't. They actually hide it.
