In the lead up to the 2020 election, Facebook feeds were an absolute cesspool of fake content. Fraudulent content beat Walmart by 40% for the top position. Many of these giant content fraud operations still thrive today. Facebook’s own algos apparently optimized for fraud. pic.twitter.com/m4A1WiqkPK
— David Carroll (@profcarroll) September 17, 2021
If this Kushner/Zuckerberg/Trump deal is what it appears to be, DOJ should have its hands full: this is serious federal criminal stuff . . . https://t.co/pr5TB0C1jk
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) September 20, 2021
Will 'Facebook Files' revelations spur any real change? (@brianstelter @noUpside @yaeleisenstat – @CNNReliable) https://t.co/ZrFnprXJXo
— TechREDEF (@TechREDEF) September 20, 2021
Roger McNamee: "Facebook's research said two thirds of the time that people join an extremist group on Facebook is because of a Facebook recommendation, which means Facebook radicalized about 2 million people into QAnon." https://t.co/ipv0nTUDig
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) September 19, 2021
I’m told Facebook is full of “ivermectin cures COVID” posts which is leading to a tidal wave of mass idiocy and making poison control centers lose their damn minds.
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) August 27, 2021
Facebook could end the global antivax movement tomorrow if they chose.
Spoiler: they won’t.
Facebook monetizes the mass theft of intellectual property belonging to Black people and their communities so that scammers in another country can easily extract their share of the stolen revenue in a few clicks. pic.twitter.com/MXCLIVLjP1
— David Carroll (@profcarroll) September 17, 2021