Facebook Stopped Employees From Reading An Internal Report About Its Role In The Insurrection.

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Ken Bensinger
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New, the latest in the @buzzfeednews tradition of "here is the document they didn't want you to read" - the internal Facebook report looking at its role in the Jan. 6 insurrection:

https://buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/full-facebook-stop-the-steal-internal-report… @RMac18 @craigsimmons13 @JaneLytv

Facebook Stopped Employees From Reading An Internal Report About Its Role In The Insurrection. You...
After BuzzFeed News reported on an internal document that examined the social network’s failings leading up to the Capitol riot, many of Facebook's employees were prevented from accessing it.
buzzfeednews.com
12:08 PM · Apr 26, 2021

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/full-facebook-stop-the-steal-internal-report

Last Thursday, BuzzFeed News revealed that an internal Facebook report concluded that the company had failed to prevent the “Stop the Steal” movement from using its platform to subvert the election, encourage violence, and help incite the Jan. 6 attempted coup on the US Capitol.

Titled “Stop the Steal and Patriot Party: The Growth and Mitigation of an Adversarial Harmful Movement,” the report is one of the most important analyses of how the insurrectionist effort to overturn a free and fair US presidential election spread across the world’s largest social network — and how Facebook missed critical warning signs. The report examines how the company was caught flat-footed as the Stop the Steal Facebook group supercharged a movement to undermine democracy, and concludes the company was unprepared to stop people from spreading hate and incitement to violence on its platform.

The report's authors, who were part of an internal task force studying harmful networks, published the document to Facebook's internal message board last month, making it broadly available to company employees. But after BuzzFeed News revealed the report's existence last week, many employees were restricted from accessing it.

“Is there a reason the Workplace Note has been taken down?” one employee wrote on the message board after the report became restricted. “I suspect employees would prefer to read it for themselves and draw their own conclusions.”

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[Blue Owl]

1. More Fuckkkerburg Fuckkkery

I’ve had it with that fuckkkstickkk

[soothsayer]

2. Is he an alien or an android? I can't tell.

[machoneman]

3. Easy! Senate/House committees subpoena the work and enter it into the Federal Register.

Game, set match as then anyone can access it.

[Gruenemann]

4. Actually, it's included in this Buzzfeed article.

No subpoena needed!

[Hekate]

13. Cool. Thanks

[orleans]

5. bookmarking this thread n/t (and thanks for posting) nt

[SergeStorms]

6. Facebook is directly responsible....

for the political shitshow that is the republican party, and the domestic terrorists that support Drumpf. Facebook needs to be torn to pieces like the Bell telephone companies in 1982.

[KS Toronado]

9. Facebook has a history of messing with Democratic voters, not so much for reQugs

I've been kicked off facebook 3 times, my crime was promoting Hillary for President.
Just changed my name/e-mail to get back on, they kept booting me, will never join again.
Seems to be a reQublican friendly website.

[uponit7771]

14. +1, they're currently helping the terrorist sympathizers

[SheltieLover]

7. K&R!

[SoonerPride]

8. sigh. STOP USING FACEBOOK PEOPLE.

But there's always the "I need it to stay in touch with my niece" crowd.

Facebook is straight up evil.

Delete that shit.

[Earth-shine]

10. His eyes -- he looks like he's on drugs.

Takes one to know one.

It's legal for me. I got my MJ card.

[Botany]

11. In 2016 Theresa Hong (Trump Campaign), "Without Facebook we wouldn't have won.

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Those Hillary and her dirty emails and her dirty email server that were posted on Facebook in 2016
was Russian disinformation and our good friend the Mercers paid for and helped to push those lies
by using Cambridge Analytica which let millions of Americans see that crap because they were
algorithms for Russia/Cambridge Analytica/Facebook. And Zuckerberg was well aware of what was
going too.


Do not use Facebook it is toxic.

[dlk]

12. Nothing to see here

Just move along…