My key takeaway from this great new @NaomiNixWrites @washingtonpost piece is that tech companies have done far too little protect democracy. This is particularly galling in a post-insurrection world. The problems are systemic. #FixTheFeed washingtonpost.com/technology/202… What if tech companies spent way less money on lobbying and managing civil and human rights leaders and spent that all on ending the way their algorithms amplify white supremacists, authoritarians and their mouthpieces?

Haugen's revelation that Facebook only takes down 3-5% of hate speech in violation of its policies doesn't surprise me - I've always thought Facebook's enforcement incredibly weak. But I am shocked by how many times FB has lied or misled us about this statistic. Examples below. Mark Zuckerberg before @commercedems @SenateCommerce on Nov. 17, 2020:

"On hate speech, we’re up to 94% of the content that we take down our AI systems and content reviewers find it before people have to report it to us."

We’ve always known that Facebook is a hate and lie profiteer. Thanks to Frances Haugen, we’re now certain that execs knew this and decided to put profits over public safety, and then lied to all of us about the depth and breadth of its harms. That’s harmful impact and intent. We cannot trust Facebook to guard the henhouse. We need Congress and the FTC to act immediately, to compel transparency, to protect our civil and human rights.

Today @rashadrobinson @DerrickNAACP @JGreenblattADL and I will meet with Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg & other Facebook execs about the #StopHateForProfit campaign. Our demands are already on the table, they've been on the table, many long before this campaign ever came to be. You can find them here: stophateforprofit.org/productrecomme…. And this thread has details.