1/ A few years too late, but important nonetheless. Maybe those things I wanted to do when Facebook hired me to lead elections integrity Ops for ads—hold politicians to the same standard as everyone else—will finally happen. As a reminder, I wrote about this after I left (thread)
https://twitter.com/alexeheath/status/1400549245388787714
2/ When I tried to ask if we could impose the same rigor of fact checking to political ads, I was shut down and cut out of all senior level meetings. Wrote about that here: washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/1…
3/ When my team proposed an entire plan for how to ensure political advertisers could not lie about voting issues, I was shut down. Wrote about that here: brookings.edu/techstream/how…
4/ I’m happy that Facebook took the “Oversight Board’s” recommendations to heart, but I want people to remember that many employees, myself included, and activists + academics + journalists made this case years ago. They could have done the right thing long ago. It was a choice.
5/ As @katieharbath pointed out, they still say they won’t fact check politicians. Not sure how Facebook can hold them to same standards on, for example, lies about voting w/out fact checking. More of the same? 🤦🏻♀️😡
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