Let's get this straight: Facebook board member Peter Thiel funded a startup that figured out how to hack Facebook-owned WhatsApp.
via @nytimes nytimes.com/2022/01/28/mag…
It's not the first time Thiel has backed a company that has taken advantage of Facebook user data.
"Clearview AI was...backed financially by Peter Thiel, a venture capitalist behind Facebook and Palantir." nytimes.com/2020/01/18/tec…
"Cambridge Analytica, which exploited the data of over 50 million Facebook users to create voter profiles. It had help from at least one employee at Palantir Technologies, founded by the Trump supporter Peter Thiel."
The Thiel ethos: "Mr. Thiel has argued that Facebook should stick to its controversial decision, announced in September, to continue accepting them and to not fact-check those from politicians, the people said." wsj.com/articles/peter…
Now @Forbes is doubling down on @nytimes's reporting
"Billionaire Facebook Investor Peter Thiel Secretly Funded A ‘Cyber Warfare’ Startup That Hacked WhatsApp" forbes.com/sites/thomasbr…
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🚨NEW🚨: New research today from @Avaaz and @FBoversight warns that Brazil is at increased risk of a “1/6 like event fomented on Facebook,” with Facebook failing to learn from or correct errors from the U.S. insurrection. rfob.medium.com/new-research-s…
Today we are publishing our Quarterly Harms report for Q4 ahead of Facebook's quarterly earnings call.
Research from us and @Avaaz estimates that if Facebook acted earlier, it could have prevented *10 Billion* views to pages/groups sharing misinformation in Brazil.
As we note, @jairbolsonaro repeatedly pushed election conspiracy theories such as electronic vote tabulators or ballots were rigged.
@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.
"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.
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”