Discussion

• @cwarzel Charlie Warzel on x

  I think is the crux of the issue though. Facebook just doesn't acknowledge that their governing ethos on political content may give a natural advantage to the most shameless people. And so here we are. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @cwarzel Charlie Warzel on x

  I wrote about the Biden campaign and its public and private struggles with Facebook for well over a year https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @craigsilverman Craig Silverman on x

  FB said the focus on increasing ad spend limits wasn't about revenue — it was to ensure election advertisers could get their message out. But revenue concerns *are* a factor in political ad decisions, as described in this NYT story from today: https://www.nytimes.com/... https://…

• @slpng_giants @slpng_giants on x

  .@facebook, if they want this much control over information, needs to open their tech to studies by groups NOT FUNDED BY THEIR COMPANY and they need oversight by people and groups who they do not handpick themselves. Until then, there's no reason to believe anything they say.

• @slpng_giants @slpng_giants on x

  There's A LOT in this new piece about @facebook's approach to election disinformation by @cwarzel, but this seems to be the most telling: https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @rmac18 @rmac18 on x

  This quote from @cwarzel's piece sums it up nicely https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @ethannichtern Ethan Nichtern on x

  Suggestion: In the future, let's not give a guy who was decent at computer coding in college the singlehanded power to nearly destroy all the world's democracies, ok? https://twitter.com/...

• @brendannyhan Brendan Nyhan on x

  Important issues in this column but that stat is not convincing (people who use FB daily are different! correlation is not causation!) https://twitter.com/...

• @whotargetsme Who Targets Me on x

  This piece from @cwarzel on the relationship between FB and the Biden campaign has lots of interesting factlets and exchanges in it. https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @nytopinion @nytopinion on x

  An internal Biden campaign poll “of white, non-college-educated voters showed that those who used Facebook daily were 33 percent less likely to vote for Mr. Biden than those who didn't,” @cwarzel writes https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @anandwrites Anand Giridharadas on x

  Facebook is the new Fox News. https://twitter.com/...

• @melissaryan Melissa Ryan on x

  A fascinating window into the Biden campaign's meetings and dealings with Facebook from @cwarzel. https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @noahshachtman Noah Shachtman on x

  Facebook double-crossed the Biden campaign, @cwarzel writes https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @cwarzel Charlie Warzel on x

  I thought this quote from a former employee who was around during a lot of these 2020 fights captured this frustration well: https://twitter.com/...