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25 Oct, 11 tweets, 8 min read
It is going to be one busy week!

Join us here as we keep up with the latest revelations about #Facebook.

An ongoing🧵on all the latest news on whistleblower testimonies and the leaked Facebook Files. All in one place.

#OnlineSafetyBill
#FacebookFiles
🚨BREAKING

@CNN has now released some of the leaked Facebook documents

#TheFacebookPapers

edition.cnn.com/business/live-…
@CNN says that "Facebook Papers could mark the biggest crisis the company has faced yet".

Their reports reveal that FB:
- Didn't curb 'Stop the Steal'
- "knew it was promoting QAnon"
- Did not take action to contain the incitement of ethnic violence in Ethiopia on its platform
@NBCNews is also out with its reports on #TheFacebookPapers.

"Documents reveal internal fury and dissent over site’s policies"

"Facebook has known it has a human trafficking problem for years. It still hasn't fully fixed it" @claresduffy @CNN
cnn.com/2021/10/25/tec…
"The case against Mark Zuckerberg: Insiders say Facebook’s CEO chose growth over safety" @lizzadwoskin @ToryNewmyer @ShibaniMahtani @washingtonpost
washingtonpost.com/technology/202…
Here is a report by @leah_nylen from @politico on how Facebook knows of its own dominance in the tech sphere.

She summarizes the report in a 🧵

FB uses most of its resources to deal with the US, leaving the rest of the world to reel with its harmful effects.

"Facebook did little to moderate posts in the world’s most violent countries" @markscott82 @politico

politico.com/news/2021/10/2…
“Employees pleaded with Facebook to stop letting politicians bend rules” @MsHannahMurphy @DaveLeeFT @FT on.ft.com/3vLnBJd
"How Facebook Failed the World" @elcush for @TheAtlantic

theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

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25 Oct
STATEMENT: "F-DAY: Facebook Faces Day Of Reckoning, 17 News Organizations and Whistleblower Offer Devastating Evidence of Facebook’s Harms" -- RFOB
rfob.medium.com/f-day-facebook…
"Today’s avalanche of leaks, revelations and reporting blasts apart Facebook’s spin that Frances Haugen was ‘cherry picking’ documents." 1/5
"In breathtaking detail, the Facebook Papers show a company that is in the thrall of right-wing extremists..." 2/5
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25 Oct
LIVE🔴: @FrancesHaugen gives evidence before @OnlineSafetyCom in the United Kingdom today.

Follow along with us!

Watch here: parliamentlive.tv/event/index/cd…
@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.
Read 42 tweets
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25 Oct
🔴Today's a big day in a week filled with testimonies on the harms done by Big Tech, specifically FB.

The courageous whistleblower @FrancesHaugen testifies before the @OnlineSafetyCom at 14:30pm BST

Catch her speak here: parliamentlive.tv/event/index/cd…

We'll be here tweeting live!
As we prepare for @FrancesHaugen's testimony later this afternoon, let us take a dive into the revelations she has already made!

"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.

Facebook has been breeding such an ecosystem.

Read 5 tweets
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3 Oct
🚨The whistleblower is revealed ahead of the @60Minutes special
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”
Read 14 tweets
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13 Sep
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
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28 Jul
🚨BREAKING🚨 Disinformation on Facebook kills.

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.

Read the report ⬇️
rfob.medium.com/facebook-quart…
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.
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