#BREAKING: Shocking internal @Facebook documents revealed by @WSJ show that the company has built a system which exempts high-profile users from some or all of its rules, allowing them to post potentially harmful content without consequence. google.co.uk/amp/s/www.wsj.…
“These allegations show how Facebook’s platform fuels the spread of harmful & abusive content. The fact these internal documents seem to contradict assurances they've given calls into question how much we can trust what they say" @amnesty's @AgnesCallamard amnesty.org/en/latest/news…
"If we prioritize truth over lies, tolerance over prejudice, empathy over indifference & experts over ignoramuses - maybe we can stop the greatest propaganda machine in history, save democracy, & still have a place for free speech" @SachaBaronCohen @adl adl.org/news/article/s…
Without Facebook & SCL/#CambridgeAnalytica Trump wouldn’t have won
In 2018, Facebook suspended AggregateIQ from its platform due to concerns over its possible affiliation with SCL, the parent company of Cambridge Analytica
Did they swing the Brexit vote?
According to #CambridgeAnalytica whistleblower, @chrisinsilico, he was tasked by Steve Bannon in 2015 to build a psychological warfare tool designed to use big data & social media to drive open cracks in societies & hollow out democracies
It worked!
"According to the UN, @Facebook played a 'determining role' in the genocide in Myanmar which led to the exodus of more than 800,000 Rohingya"
In 2018, Facebook vowed to work with investigators
In 2020, they were found to be withholding crucial evidence.
nytimes.com/2018/11/06/tec…
In 2019, @amnesty warned that @Facebook & @Google’s surveillance of billions of people poses a systemic threat to human rights
In 2020, @Facebook’s Zuckerberg admitted in a US Congressional Hearing, to censoring posts at the request of the Vietnamese govt
How @Facebook won the election for Trump @shoshanazuboff explains to @hari & @camanpour
Our privacy has been chipped away leaving us in a situation where we either submit to this pervasive surveillance machinery or forego the benefits of the digital world
We know Big Tech firms mine our data for commercial purposes, but the new frontier lies not in our consumer behaviour, but in our biological selves
Population-wide genomic data would offer unprecedented power Peter Thiel, a member of Facebook's board of directors, runs Palantir
“We make body image issues worse for 1 in 3 teen girls”
@WSJ reports that @Facebook 's own research showed that @instagram can have serious negative effects on teen girls' mental health
Yet, the company has publicly played down the app's negative impacts #BREAKING @JeffHorwitz
In 2003, before Zuckerberg dropped out of Harvard to start @Facebook, he created a site called Facemash to rate classmates
After being accused of violating privacy he shut down the site but told an magazine
"Issues about violating people's privacy don't seem to be surmountable”
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