Important reporting from @BrandyZadrozny.
Critically, as she notes, many researchers were confirming and re-confirming the danger of Group recommendations for years before Facebook took action.
So much wasted time.
Critically, as she notes, many researchers were confirming and re-confirming the danger of Group recommendations for years before Facebook took action.
So much wasted time.
https://twitter.com/BrandyZadrozny/status/1451682387197407239
Last year, I wrote for @TheAtlantic about my own experience covering a local re-open movement and how my decade-plus of engagement patterns were upended seemingly overnight.
theatlantic.com/technology/arc…
theatlantic.com/technology/arc…
Together @CindyOtis_ and I described the problem in a @WIRED op Ed that only skimmed the surface of the disturbing things we had found. June 2020. wired.com/story/facebook…
Groups were the key to my uncovering this network of fake accounts in the 2018 Massachusetts Senate race: buzzfeednews.com/article/ninaja…
I warned Congress about Groups too:
2020: wilsoncenter.org/sites/default/…
2019: docs.house.gov/meetings/AP/AP…
2020: wilsoncenter.org/sites/default/…
2019: docs.house.gov/meetings/AP/AP…
All this to say: disinformation researchers are frustrated and tired of repeating themselves.
Let’s scrape our jaws off the floor and get to work.
Let’s scrape our jaws off the floor and get to work.
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