Zuckerberg acknowledges Facebook erred by not removing a post that urged armed action in Kenosha

[Eugene]

Source: Washington Post

Zuckerberg acknowledges Facebook erred by not removing a post that urged armed action in Kenosha

By Craig Timberg
8/28/2020, 4:58:21 p.m.

Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged in a video post Friday that the company erred by not taking down an event listing for a militia group that encouraged armed civilians to defend the streets of Kenosha, Wis., from civil unrest before the fatal shooting of two people this week.

Facebook removed the page for the “Kenosha Guard” and an event listing for “Armed Citizens to Protect Our Lives and Property” after the shootings Tuesday night in which Kyle Rittenhouse, 17, allegedly killed two men and seriously wounded a third.

Looking somber in a blue T-shirt and speaking in a slow, halting manner, Zuckerberg said the page and event listing violated Facebook’s policies and should have been removed after the company received numerous complaints about their violent nature. He called the error “largely an operational mistake.

“The contractors, the reviewers who the initial complaints were funneled to, didn’t, basically, didn’t pick this up,” Zuckerberg said. “And on second review, doing it more sensitively, the team that’s responsible for dangerous organizations recognized that this violated the policies and we took it down.”

Zuckerberg didn’t say if the contractors had been disciplined for not removing the page and event listing or if Facebook would undertake additional training or consider changes to policies as a result of the event. He did not make an apology to the victims of the violence or their families in the video post.

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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/08/28/facebook-kenosha-militia-page/

[stillcool]

1. one born every minute, but not this time

sell it to someone else

[doc03]

2. The Republicans have made that guy a folk hero. There will be copy cats now

wanting to make a name for themselves. The Republicans are trying to incite a civil war. When there is one mass murder it is always followed by several others. I look for the same here this will encourage other armed militia people to copy.

[regnaD kciN]

3. Is it the same sort of "operational mistake"...

...that allowed a "Jewish Ritual Murder" group to stay on Facebook, despite multiple complaints, for over three years, while any posts comparing this administration to Nazis immediately brought about an immediate suspension for the poster?

[soothsayer]

5. Ugh

[Thomas Hurt]

4. You would think somone Jewish would pay a bit more attention to the fascism running amok here....

[bluedye33139]

6. After FB coordinated the Rohingya genocide, you'd think they would pay more attention

But I have long suspected that the company's ties to Pete Thiel are not an outlier.

Zuckerberg, for instance, spent a year in which he only ate animals that he killed with a knife. He has some odd, strange personality features, and I don't know why we all assumed that he was a good person.

[BigmanPigman]

7. He REALLY DOESN'T CARE!

He is like the Donald...it is all about power and money.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

8. Kick

[dalton99a]

9. Zuckerberg couldn't care less about democracy or decency

He doesn't give a shit about anything except his bank account

[Rebl2]

11. Kind of

like trump.

[Rebl2]

10. To little

to late you idiot Zuckerberg. He’s in this so deep and I don’t believe a thing he says. Ultimately he is responsible and not the contractors.