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Wednesday, October 27, 2021

Gotta keep the truth from leaking out, right?

As supporters of Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6th, battling police and forcing lawmakers into hiding, an insurrection of a different kind was taking place inside the world’s largest social media company. 

Thousands of miles away, in California, Facebook engineers were racing to tweak internal controls to slow the spread of misinformation and inciteful content. Emergency actions — some of which were rolled back after the 2020 election — included banning Trump, freezing comments in groups with a record for hate speech, filtering out the “Stop the Steal” rallying cry and empowering content moderators to act more assertively by labeling the U.S. a “Temporary High Risk Location" for political violence.

7 comments:

  1. "freezing comments in groups with a record for hate speech"

    except for Muslim hate speech against Christians and the west in general.

    Nemo

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    1. Or anybody against Ypipo, men, straights, non-communists, etc.

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  2. Land lines, snail mail and word of mouth got a lot done back in the days.

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  3. From January 6th till Inauguration Day I was unable to post comments in any of the groups I belonged to nor could I create any groups.

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    1. Obviously they recognized that you’re a wild eyed Domestic Terrorist bent on destroying our Republic.
      We could be friends!

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  4. I keep hearing Trump is going to set up his own F/B-Twitter type deal. When that day happens I'll be jumping ship and starting fresh there.

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    1. That would be correct:

      https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-launches-new-communications-platform-months-after-twitter-facebook-ban

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