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2022-12-03 Government Corruption

Don't Trust Zuck: Facebook Failed to Block Ads Containing Death Threats to Election Workers

[Breitbart] While social media giants are known for acting quickly and without hesitation to censor certain information being posted during election season — such as the bombshell news story about Hunter Biden’s infamous "laptop from hell" — Facebook reportedly failed to block ads containing death threats to election workers ahead of the 2022 midterm elections.

Facebook failed to block 75 percent of ads "explicitly calling for violence against and killing of US election workers" ahead of the midterm elections, according to an investigation by Global Witness and the New York University Tandon School of Engineering’s Cybersecurity for Democracy (C4D) team.

"The ads contained ten real-life examples of death threats issued against election workers and included statements that people would be killed, hanged or executed, and that children would be molested," the report said.

Global Witness explained that it submitted the content as ads in both English and Spanish and that Facebook approved nine of the ten ads in English and six of the ten ads in Spanish.

"Once Facebook approved the ads for publishing, Global Witness and C4D removed the ads before they would be displayed on the platform in order to avoid spreading hateful and violent speech," the report added.

Posted by Besoeker 2022-12-03 01:38|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top

#1 Did it fail, or did it want the comments to be seen for a variety of down the road political reasons?

Posted by NN2N1 2022-12-03 07:43|| 2022-12-03 07:43|| Front Page Top

#2 During my days of hunting down Jihadi pages on FB, it was curious to see how certain instances went down. I had great success against AQIS (19 pages alone in 2016) but had zero success against Paleo hate pages urging the killing of Jews. Of all the attempts and communications, not one of the Paleo pages was taken down. All these things point to task and design.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2022-12-03 11:18|| 2022-12-03 11:18|| Front Page Top

#3 Would they have censored Ray Epps? I think we all no the answer to that.

Posted by Super Hose 2022-12-03 12:57|| 2022-12-03 12:57|| Front Page Top

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