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26 Oct, 4 tweets, 3 min read
Internal docs showing pernicious political/management influence on Facebook content moderation decisions
politico.com/news/2021/10/2… embed.documentcloud.org/documents/2109…
washingtonpost.com/technology/202…
Facebook features Breitbart on its platform due to external political pressure despite its own data showing it is low-quality and low trust wsj.com/articles/faceb…
And the stuff in other countries is... nytimes.com/2021/10/23/tec… cnn.com/2021/10/25/tec…
But there are many, many good people there trying to do the right thing. And this is also true

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