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Mark Changed The Rules: How Facebook Went Easy On Alex Jones And Other Right-Wing Figures
Facebooks rules to combat misinformation and hate speech are subject to the whims and political considerations of its CEO and his policy team leader.
Ryan Mac
Craig Silverman
In April 2019, Facebook was preparing to ban one of the internets most notorious spreaders of misinformation and hate, Infowars founder Alex Jones. Then CEO Mark Zuckerberg personally intervened.
Jones had gained infamy for claiming that the 2012 Sandy Hook elementary school massacre was a giant hoax, and that the teenage survivors of the 2018 Parkland shooting were crisis actors. But Facebook had found that he was also relentlessly spreading hate against various groups, including Muslims and trans people. That behavior qualified him for expulsion from the social network under the company's policies for "dangerous individuals and organizations," which required Facebook to also remove any content that expressed praise or support for them.
But Zuckerberg didnt consider the Infowars founder to be a hate figure, according to a person familiar with the decision, so he overruled his own internal experts and opened a gaping loophole: Facebook would permanently ban Jones and his company but would not touch posts of praise and support for them from other Facebook users. This meant that Jones legions of followers could continue to share his lies across the worlds largest social network.
"Mark personally didnt like the punishment, so he changed the rules, a former policy employee told BuzzFeed News, noting that the original rule had already been in use and represented the product of untold hours of work between multiple teams and experts.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/mark-zuckerberg-joel-kaplan-facebook-alex-jones
Facebooks rules to combat misinformation and hate speech are subject to the whims and political considerations of its CEO and his policy team leader.
Ryan Mac
Craig Silverman
In April 2019, Facebook was preparing to ban one of the internets most notorious spreaders of misinformation and hate, Infowars founder Alex Jones. Then CEO Mark Zuckerberg personally intervened.
Jones had gained infamy for claiming that the 2012 Sandy Hook elementary school massacre was a giant hoax, and that the teenage survivors of the 2018 Parkland shooting were crisis actors. But Facebook had found that he was also relentlessly spreading hate against various groups, including Muslims and trans people. That behavior qualified him for expulsion from the social network under the company's policies for "dangerous individuals and organizations," which required Facebook to also remove any content that expressed praise or support for them.
But Zuckerberg didnt consider the Infowars founder to be a hate figure, according to a person familiar with the decision, so he overruled his own internal experts and opened a gaping loophole: Facebook would permanently ban Jones and his company but would not touch posts of praise and support for them from other Facebook users. This meant that Jones legions of followers could continue to share his lies across the worlds largest social network.
"Mark personally didnt like the punishment, so he changed the rules, a former policy employee told BuzzFeed News, noting that the original rule had already been in use and represented the product of untold hours of work between multiple teams and experts.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/mark-zuckerberg-joel-kaplan-facebook-alex-jones
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"Mark Changed The Rules": How Facebook Went Easy On Alex Jones And Other Right-Wing Figures (Original Post)
Dem4Life1102
Feb 2021
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Oldem
(833 posts)1. FB is a menace to a free society.
How many times does this have to be demonstrated?
dalton99a
(81,919 posts)2. Kick
empedocles
(15,751 posts)3. Just more Moscow mark
WA-03 Democrat
(3,073 posts)4. This +1,000,000 rubles
Yuri Meliner is the Russian early backer of Twitter and Facebook
[link:https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/05/world/yuri-milner-facebook-twitter-russia.html|
Social media has so much to do with a Petrochemical State. Russia plays the long game. USSR is still literally here.
BSdetect
(9,003 posts)5. From now om he should be known a Murky Fuckerberk
Berk means fool.
British slang : a stupid or foolish person.