Washington: Sixteen months before the November presidential election, a researcher on Facebook described alarming development.
He gets satisfied about Qanon’s conspiracy theory within a week to open an experimental account, he wrote in an internal report.
On November 5, two days after the election, other Facebook staff posted a message that warned of colleagues commenting with “flammable selection error information” seen under many posts.
Four days after that, a scientist scientist scientist wrote in a note to his coworkers that 10% of all of our views about political material – a figure who was high stulling – was a post that accused the vote of fraud.
In each case, Facebook staff sounded alarms about the wrong information and inflammatory content on the site and urged action – but the company failed or struggled to do problems.
The new internal Facebook document provided by the former employee of the Whistleblower Frances Haugen provides a glimpse of how the company seems to have stumbled into the January 6 riots.
It becomes clear that even after years under a microscope for policing not enough platforms, the company has missed how many weeks spent riots swore – on Facebook himself – to stop the Congress from advancing Joe Biden’s victory.
Facebook has blamed the proliferation of falsehood polls on former President Donald Trump and other social platforms.
In January, Sheryl Sandberg, COO Facebook, said the Capitol Riot January 6 “Mostly held on a platform that did not have our ability to stop hating.” Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, told parliamentarians in March the company “did our part to secure our election integrity”.
But the document showed the extent to which Facebook knew extremist groups on his site who tried to polarize American voters.
What papers do not offer is a complete picture of decision making on Facebook.
Some internal studies suggest that the company struggle to provide control of how fast information spreads, while other reports suggest that Facebook is worried about losing involvement.
But what is not wrong is that Facebook employees themselves believe that social networks can do more.