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• @annaturley Anna Turley on x

  Totally unsurprised by this. https://twitter.com/...

• @thattimwalker Tim Walker on x

  Really, @nick_clegg? Is this really what you stand for? https://www.theguardian.com/ ...

• @jason_kint Jason Kint on x

  Unfair. The issue isn't incompetence but a willful decision to put connecting and profiting first in line. “She described Facebook, which was founded in the US, as having ‘little language capability and zero cultural competency.’” https://twitter.com/...

• @emmalbriant @emmalbriant on x

  Well this article explains a lot. It also helps illuminate the problems that just cannot be left up to an unaccountable unelected profit-oriented private company https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @jason_kint Jason Kint on x

  For Thursday's hearing with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Congress is going to need to choose their questions between insurrection, genocide, sex trafficking, prior false testimony, antitrust and privacy abuses. Do I have this right?

• @slpng_giants @slpng_giants on x

  .@Facebook is a danger to society. https://twitter.com/...

• @stellacreasy @stellacreasy on x

  Hmm- looking forward to trying to explain to my daughter (and indeed rest of my family who on the whole quite like having me around) that because her mum is a politician @Facebook gives a free pass on death threats...https://www.theguardian.com/ ...

• @benquinn75 Ben Quinn on x

  Facebook guidelines allow for users to call for death of public figures https://www.theguardian.com/ ... startling stuff via @alexhern

• @jamie4north Jamie Stone MP on x

  Facebook's rules should be TRANSPARENT. They shouldn't have to be leaked for us to find out what they are. Also, the rules allow public figures to receive death threats... apparently that's not harassment?🤯 https://www.theguardian.com/ ...

• @alexhern Alex Hern on x

  The secrecy means that Facebook doesn't have to address apparent inconsistencies between the rules it applies, and the values it claims to hold. So even as the company is fighting a PR battle over the accusations that it does little to prevent abuse of black footballers...

• @alexhern Alex Hern on x

  These documents are what @Klonick described as the “case law” of Facebook's quasi-legal system. They're not the rules themselves, but they're the fine detail that allows Facebook to apply the general principles to specific situations. Except that unlike case law - they're secret.

• @alexhern Alex Hern on x

  Over the past few months, I've been going through hundreds of pages of moderation documents used by Facebook to guide its contractors over how the company's guidelines should be implemented in practice: https://www.theguardian.com/ ...

• @alexhern Alex Hern on x

  That means that only Facebook's moderators got to know the detail of the company's decisions about when to follow state law, and when to ignore it, or about how Facebook enforces the rules that ban Qanon in practice https://www.theguardian.com/ ...