They don’t do enough to stop this.
New from me: The viral earpiece conspiracy theory was pushed by coordinated Facebook accounts at the same second this morning.
— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) September 29, 2020
Then Fox News picked it up. Then, the Trump campaign sent it to your phone.https://t.co/rVXf7BRJrL pic.twitter.com/VoN07IuwC6
Zuckerberg seems to have put a lot of chips on Trump winning & has not feared to antagonize Democrats (not to mention many of his own employees) in the process. Remember when Sandberg was an icon for Dem women? Seems like another epoch. Their bet may come due if Trump loses https://t.co/qvu1y95dnI
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) September 29, 2020
Nightmare scenario: Facebook's group recommendation function keeps steering people into radical online groups amplifying Trump's claims of a stolen election. A liberal coalition is now calling on Facebook to turn that algorithm off. @paulwaldman1 and me:https://t.co/FFA1xD11QL
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) September 29, 2020
Facebook SAID they would enforce their prohibition on misinformation about voting methods against Trump.
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) September 28, 2020
Instead they are doing this.
Which is actually worse than doing nothing, IMO. pic.twitter.com/FVy3FiajLL
Twitter's approach clearly superior here. https://t.co/DTYXxaTPgv
— Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan) September 28, 2020
it is astounding how low the bar is and how much facebook is botching this https://t.co/603IH6ulHO
— Charlie Warzel (@cwarzel) September 28, 2020
I’m not sure anyone argues the algorithm “favors conservatives.” But perhaps the fact that the algorithm rewards outrage content (often built on dishonest premises) is a problem! https://t.co/Z21B3KZ60q pic.twitter.com/YGUpnw39Vm
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) September 26, 2020
NEW: Why are right-wing FB pages so popular?
— Alex Thompson (@AlxThomp) September 26, 2020
A Facebook exec argues the msg is just more visceral: "Right wing populism is always more engaging…Nation, protection, the other, anger, fear. That was there in the 30s. That's not invented by social media"https://t.co/RpC8sldXsx
The Russian operation used Facebook to find and recruit authentic, unwitting people to help hype their propaganda, many of them journalists https://t.co/qToaMpPf0p
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) September 25, 2020
smart segment by Donie. Think it shows that this isn't an issue of media literacy, really. don't think it's that he's duped in the traditional sense especially bc he certainly doesn't care if he was. there's something deeper based in identity & constructing reality to preserve it https://t.co/axv6ZjGvY4
— Charlie Warzel (@cwarzel) September 24, 2020
THIS. THIS IS WHY WE FROZE OUR ACCOUNTS! This is why we want Mark Zuckerberg to sit with the civil rights groups who are offering to help fix this crisis! This platform is contributing to the destruction of our democracy. https://t.co/h02OSALERL
— kerry washington (@kerrywashington) September 24, 2020
Facebook is exponentially more important to Donald Trump than Russia and Russia couldn’t boost Donald Trump without unregulated platforms like Facebook.
— Ben Rhodes (@brhodes) September 24, 2020
The top-performing link posts by U.S. Facebook pages in the last 24 hours are from:
— Facebook's Top 10 (@FacebooksTop10) September 22, 2020
1. Franklin Graham
2. Ben Shapiro
3. Ben Shapiro
4. Delish
5. Ben Shapiro
6. Breitbart
7. Dan Bongino
8. Sean Hannity
9. David J. Harris Jr.
10. Donald Trump For President
there's no question that certain kinds of right wing content perform very well on Facebook, but top items on a list != what most people see. sigh. https://t.co/VIXEUpUX1q
— Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan) September 17, 2020
Spending time in FB election groups, it is all Trump all the time. Will be interesting come Election Day to see how much this reflects either reality or the political capture of Facebook. Increasingly it seems that moderates/ liberals just don’t use it at all ….
— emily bell (@emilybell) September 15, 2020
Yet another devastating story about Facebook. Huge kudos to Sophie Zhang, an employee who turned down $64k severance to tell the truth.
— Carole Cadwalladr (@carolecadwalla) September 14, 2020
The speed & scale of the damage Facebook is doing to democracies around the world is truly terrifying https://t.co/84UJFulnDQ
On Facebook, the community has no fucking standards. None. To pretend otherwise is as much of an offense as the content that the shithole platform tolerates. https://t.co/trLz3fVMZ0
— David Simon (@AoDespair) September 13, 2020
nEUtraL PLatFOrm https://t.co/A7DV9h6a8s
— Brian Schatz (@brianschatz) September 12, 2020
ICYMI: Our analysis found that Facebook magnifies traffic for prominent right-wing news sources https://t.co/rLyi2eIEZl pic.twitter.com/GCqvTFU6Hr
— G. Elliott Morris (@gelliottmorris) September 11, 2020
Facebook announced a sweeping action to block new political ads from appearing on its site in the week before Election Day. But it likely will not be very effective in minimizing voter misinformation. https://t.co/UVpsDP5RSm
— NYT Politics (@nytpolitics) September 6, 2020
Facebook in effect "both sidesing" the behavior of politicians on its platform with this pre-election ban. https://t.co/Vk0KmwfAqE
— Nick Confessore (@nickconfessore) September 3, 2020
Nancy Pelosi's haircut is by far the biggest story on Facebook right now. 13 of the top 25 top-performing link posts on US Facebook in the last 24 hours (and 4 of the top 5) are about it.
— Kevin Roose (@kevinroose) September 2, 2020
Diamond and Silk got tagged as a "repeat offender" by Facebook earlier this year for sharing misinformation. They complained, and someone in Facebook leadership intervened and removed the strikes on their account.
— Kevin Roose (@kevinroose) September 1, 2020
Today, they have the top-performing link post by a U.S. page. https://t.co/Unxl6kdQbq
Sad! 