Sunday, 31 January 2021

Facebook knew in August ~70% of most active civic 'Groups' were too toxic to recommend to users

In August, internal research at Facebook showed that ~70% of the platform's most active Groups were considered too toxic to recommend to users, reports Jeff Horwitz at the Wall Street Journal on Sunday. It's a well-documented tale of Facebook knowing it was amplifying domestic terrorism, and failing to address it. — Read the rest