This needs to be investigated…
The task force removed hundreds of groups with violent or hateful content in the months before Nov. 3, according to the ProPublica/Post investigation.
Yet shortly after the vote, Facebook dissolved the task force and rolled back other intensive enforcement measures.
Run fast and break things, indeed.
I hadn’t heard that…BUT I do know they backed OAN…the raging right wing “news” channel.
That’s why I switched from AT&T.
Not so much. It was all reported in real time. They disbanded the stuff once the election was called for Biden because the whole point of the task force was to prevent someone screwing with the election. Election over, job done.
Anyone could see that the election wasn’t “over” for a huge chunk of right wingers.
But for purposes of voting, it was. No more chances of misinformation skewing the votes since the polls were closed and finished.
No reason at that point for FB to keep putting resources to that, there was never some open-ended mission.
Yuckerberg loves Trumpf, don’t he? What a money-grubbing little shit. His face is as punchable as Doof Jr’s.
When the WWW started to be taken over by loudmouth imbeciles I was reminded of CB Radio. It was something quite useful until it was taken over and clogged up by loudmouth imbeciles screaming “Breaker, breaker!!!” about nothing and everything.
“Drew Pusateri, a spokesperson for Meta, Facebook’s newly renamed parent company, said that it was not responsible for the violence on Jan. 6. He pointed instead to Trump and others who voiced the lies that sparked the siege on the Capitol.”
This was, perhaps, the most predictable response imaginable. In the corporate culture of Facebook there is, evidently, no accountability whatsoever for making yourself the worldwide megaphone that assists third parties in broadcasting wildly false, highly combustible, claims to people who are happy to act violently on them.
This reminds me of the Tom Lehrer’s song about Verner Von Braun “. . . Once the missiles go up, who cares where they come down? That’s not my department, said Verner Von Braun.”
I would not want to be a spokesperson (personally identified or otherwise) who is paid to make transparently false claims to the general public.
Yeah, I threw a house party with an open invitation to anyone and everyone. The more the merrier!
I can’t help it if some nefarious groups took the invitation, disregarded all my “house rules,” and trashed the neighborhood! You expect me to control personal behavior? That’s on them, not me!
Realize that the pre-divestiture AT&T was an entirely different company.
“The idea that we deprioritized our Civic Integrity work in any way is simply not true,” he said. “We integrated it into a larger Central Integrity team to allow us to apply the work that this team pioneered for elections to other challenges like health-related issues for example. Their work continues to this day.”
No, perish the thought that anyone would think ill of a company that doesn’t care about those who use it, mills their info for profit, and has lied about its past actions. The integration he mentions is a guy that no one wanted on their team sitting with the oldest computer in the building in a corner of the copy room.
And they’re going to be ordering that guy another red stapler any day now…
The integration you would want is something more like you take the top dozen people from your ostensibly wonderful independent group, and you put the in charge of what everybody else is doing. While hiring new people all round.
Facebook’s choices
They have the right to censor anyone, but they don’t have the right to allow anything.