“Overall, the focus of my organization – and most of Facebook – was on large-scale problems, an approach which fixated us on spam,” she said. “The civic aspect was discounted because of its small volume, its disproportionate impact ignored.”
THIS 🖕
The memo (excerpts) read like an employee well aware of the dangers and trying to work as hard as possible to hold back the tide -- but being chronically de-prioritized for years.
This is why I quit Facebook: They clearly DO NOT PRIORITIZE democracy. It's not that they cannot deal with the obvious inauthentic behavior on their platform -- or even that the front line workers aren't working themselves to death trying to stop it -- it's that executives have
...decided to prioritize PR over democracy. One has to ask, if there were no PR issues, would they do ... anything? Anything at all? Or is it completely up to voters to figure out (without Facebook's internal analytics) which of the thousands of accounts posting things...
...about an election are paid / fake / inauthentic? Is their core attitude "use at your own risk" for what is -- let's be honest -- an absolutely core communication medium over the whole world?
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