1/ Facebook is being deceitful and negligent on this issue more broadly. Maybe criminally so, to be frank.
For the better part of a year, they have been advised about how extremists were exploiting their lax enforcement on closed groups.
They rebuffed and dismissed.
For the better part of a year, they have been advised about how extremists were exploiting their lax enforcement on closed groups.
They rebuffed and dismissed.
https://twitter.com/donie/status/1314276871136186368
2/ Worse. Back in April, they assured many governors they had removed reopen groups. They lied. They only removed public ones, left private ones and told the governors they complied with request and law.
We had to literally expose the private groups and call them out for it.
We had to literally expose the private groups and call them out for it.
3/ What I’m getting to is this: there are a range of very simple things that could have done to prevent extremists not only from exploiting facebook’s lax framework but from benefitting from Facebook recruitment.
4/ Among largest, if not single largest, recruitment tool for violent extremists is Facebook’s recommendation algorithm.
Facebook has known about, has been advised, has been repeatedly asked to implement some modest countermeasures. And no.
Criminally negligent seems apt.
Facebook has known about, has been advised, has been repeatedly asked to implement some modest countermeasures. And no.
Criminally negligent seems apt.
5/ And lastly, never forget, that person who ultimately determines the rules (and then how they are enforced) is Joel Kaplan - a longtime Republican operative who understands that letting right wing extremists flourish helps the right-wing and uses his position accordingly.
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