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Gizmodo Publishes Massive New Leaked Trove of Internal Facebook Papers (gizmodo.com) 20

Posted by BeauHD from the once-confidential dept.
"Big scoop from Gizmodo today: 'Gizmodo has reviewed, redacted, and published more than two dozen leaked Facebook documents, the first of hundreds to come,'" writes Slashdot reader DevNull127. From the report: We have undertaken this project to help better inform the public about Facebook's role in a wide range of controversies, as well as to provide researchers with access to materials that we hope will advance general knowledge of social media's role in modern history's most troubling crises [...]. The documents will reveal to you, for instance, an internal analysis of the many groups that Facebook knew to be prolific sources of both voter suppression efforts and hate speech targeting its most marginalized users. The records show the company was privately aware of the growing fears among users of being exposed to election-related falsehoods. The papers show that Meta's own data pinpointed the account of then-President Trump as being principally responsible for a surge in reports concerning violations of its violence and incitement rules.

Today's release is the first of a series of posts from Gizmodo to be published in tandem with legal and academic partners. Our goal is to minimize any costs to individuals' privacy and any furtherance of other harms while ensuring the responsible disclosure of the greatest amount of information in the public interest possible. Future releases will be added to this page, a directory, that will eventually offer our readers links all of the leaked internal documents we have published.
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  • What a complete cesspool (Score:4, Insightful)

    by Baconsmoke ( 6186954 ) on Monday April 18, 2022 @08:35PM (#62458226)
    I always used to wonder how Nazi Germany turned a massive misinformation campaign into allowing genocide to happen. I don't wonder anymore. It starts with voices like the ones in this comment section. Allow freedom of speech at any cost. Allow people to say anything they want. Violence, hatred, racism. Say anything. Say it as many times as you want. Don't you dare prevent people from saying these things. Then blame the victims for what happens to them by saying childish and ignorant things like "sticks and stones" and "just turn the page/channel". At the end of the day a lot of people want awful things to happen. And it shows. I say childish, because only a child doesn't recognize that words become actions. And lies become truths if they are said enough times. What a fucking cesspool.

    • Thank you! The story is:

      Gizmondo releases documents about Facebook, the platform for lots of misinformation, which ultimately led a group of people to (badly) try to overthrow American democracy. What did Facebook know, did they amplify it for more engagement, how did the staff feel, etc?

      Comment section: This release of information is an attack on freedom!

    • Allow people to say anything they want.

      Back then, censoring antisemitism and racism, just wasn't done. The Nazis encouraged and supported the extremists. Now, we know where that leads. Facebook with its screen-engagement algorithms, is also encouraging the extremists.

      Don't you dare prevent people from saying these things.

      Lots of people want to prevent them but the rabble-rousers scream "oppression" and "censorship". So the weak-minded allow the vitriol and discrimination to continue. Eventually, it reaches a tipping-point where the madding crowd oppresses everybody disagreeing with them.

    • Being able to express your opinions is a cornerstone of a free and open society. Yes, we do need freedom of speech. "At any cost" seems like hyperbole, but it's pretty important. The problem is how those are labeled. I could tag your comment as "hateful". So that means that you shouldn't be able to express it, right?

      Then blame the victims for what happens to them

      Can you expand on this? What do you mean by "what happens to them"?

      There really are some pretty awful people out there. The problem is that people are looking so hard for monsters that they gr

  • "The papers show that Meta's own data pinpointed the account of then-President Trump as being principally responsible for a surge in reports concerning violations of its violence and incitement rules."

    Oh, really? Because half the country hated him so much that they'd rather give themselves a paper cut and pour lemon juice in it than have to see this guy in the news one more day. That, folks, is the source of hate speech and violence.

    And while we're on the subject, it's no surprise that this information was

  • Who wrote fecesbook's alleged "community standards", and what *exactly* does it say - not the generic letter by management that they give you if you ask for it?

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