❗️India must take official notice of the #FacebookFiles immediately❗️
IFF has asked the Standing Committee on IT to initiate an inquiry into the @FrancesHaugen & @szhang_ds revelations and invite them & #FacebookIndia reps for official testimony 👇🏽 🧵 1/9
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Stay with us as we break down the myth vs. reality of #Facebook, according to the company's own documentation!
First up: Political #misinformation and violent extremism. Can Facebook stand up to the challenge? According to reports, the answer is a NO. 2/9
Does #Facebook mislead the public about proactive hate-speech removal? The answer is YES — Facebook removes only 5% of the hate on its platforms!
Not just that, but the #FacebookFiles reveal that their platforms are literally primed for virality that promotes #hatespeech. 3/9
Negative mental and physical health implications for children and teenagers? #Facebook owned #Instagram checks all the boxes! ⬇️
Read IFF’s full analysis: internetfreedom.in/your-mom-was-r… 4/9
#Facebook facilitates "human exploitation and trafficking" according to its own internal documentation!
The "three stages of the human exploitation lifecycle" enabled by Facebook are: recruitment, facilitation and exploitation. #FacebookFiles 5/9
When Facebook says it prioritises “meaningful social interactions”, it means that the algorithm prioritises content withs a higher probability of getting any interaction (like reactions & shares).
However, it is precisely these priorities that increase divisive content. 6/9
If you thought that Facebook's "community guidelines" applied equally to all its users, irrespective of reach or prominence, you were wrong.
In a document titled “Whitelisting”, Facebook admits that many "pages, profiles and entities [were] exempted from enforcement”. 7/9
Now revealed beyond doubt: Facebook spends most of its attention and global budget against misinformation and hate speech on English-speaking countries in the Western world, *even though* most of its users exist in other areas around the globe. #FacebookFiles 8/9
And if these issues weren't enough, Facebook also lied to its investors & shareholders about: its user base, advertising reach + content production on the platform.
It's no wonder that @FrancesHaugen has asked #Facebook to declare "moral bankruptcy"👇🏽 9/9
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