"When we live in an information environment that is full of angry, polarizing content, it erodes our civic trust", @FrancesHaugen, when she spoke to @CBSNews earlier this month.
@FrancesHaugen@OnlineSafetyCom Haugen: Even the differences between American English and British English presents a content moderation challenge for Facebook that they have yet to effectively tackle.
Haugen: 60% of Facebook news feed comes from Facebook Groups. Facebook Groups and Reshares combined with engagement-based ranking produce lots of content that doesn't necessarily get pushed out on newsfeed.
Frances Haugen left in March of 2021. A data scientist. She secretly copied thousands of documents. She says Facebook is lying about the progress it’s making on misinformation and hate speech.
“The version of Facebook today is causing ethnic violence around the world”
Today’s bombshell report in @WSJ [@JeffHorwitz] that Facebook allowed at least 5.8m VIP users to be exempt from its TOS enforcement is yet another example of Facebook’s complete failure to responsibly moderate content or oversee its own platforms. /1 wsj.com/articles/faceb…
The WSJ reporting outlines how Facebook "whitelists" or gives preferential treatment to VIP Facebook users making them (at times) exempt to immune from standard content moderation practices and terms of service guidelines. The list of VIP users is called "XCheck." /2
Those whitelisted included political figures such as the former President and his son, Candace Owens, Senator Elizabeth Warren, as well as athletes like Neymar and Mark Zuckerberg himself. /3
Ahead of Facebook's quarterly earnings, RFOB releases its "Facebook Quarterly Harms Report" for Q2. This report documents Facebook's harms around COVID-19, and human life, and democracy.
A Real Facebook Oversight Board analysis from 2021 Q2 data found that a majority of the “Number One posts” (most engagement on Facebook for that day) originated from just five known ‘disinformation superspreaders’.
RFOB, in our report, also identified those five known “disinformation superspreaders.”
These superspreaders are serial disinformation offenders yet their posts rank “Number 1” frequently, per our analysis.