Sources: Facebook's security team had disinfo concerns about The Daily Wire's sites in 2019, clashing with the policy team, which prevented action being taken
“Some (Facebook) security team members wanted to investigate hyperpartisan networks based in the U.S., the people said. But the policy team discouraged them and made it clear that foreign influence operations took priority over domestic ones, they said.” https://www.nytimes.com/.…
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Important report. Only thing it appears to miss is Facebook's lone decision to refuse to ban microtargeting of political ads despite pressure from employees, former employees and regulators with WSJ reporting that board member Thiel is behind this (along w FB $ interests). https:…
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Happy to be quoted in this important story by three great disinfo/cyber reporters. To expand on my quote: there will be plenty of domestic disinfo in 2020, but what foreign adversaries can add to the mix is offensive network operations to seed propaganda with truth. https://twitt…
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Alex Kaplan on x
According to the NYT, Facebook's policy team prevented Facebook from taking action against The Daily Wire for coordinated inauthentic behavior (which breaks Facebook rules & which @JuddLegum reported on) due to bias concerns. https://popular.info/... https://www.nytimes.com/... h…
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Leading domestic politicians and “partisan groups in the[US] have borrowed Russia's 2016 playbook to create their own propaganda and disinformation campaigns, forcing the tech companies to make tough calls about restricting the speech of American citizens” https://www.nytimes.com…
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Ben Shapiro's the Daily Wire behaves like foreign disinformation networks. Even after Facebook security officials flagged it, they were told not to investigate it to avoid the appearance of bias against conservatives. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
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In interviews with 2 dozen executives and employees at Facebook, Google and Twitter over the past few months, many described a tense atmosphere of careening from crisis to crisis to handle the newest tactics being used to sow discord and influence votes https://www.nytimes.com/..…
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Micah Zenko on x
Critical report on how domestic-based misinformation campaigns are proliferating. key passage from @alexstamos https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
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Facebook, Google and Twitter are more than ready to handle the election interference threats of 2016. But not of 2020. https://www.nytimes.com/...
@rmac18
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These decisions aren't made haphazardly. Mark Zuckerberg was hosting Ben Shapiro and others for dinner last year. https://twitter.com/...
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Kara Swisher on x
Is social media an ever evolving weapon? Yep! Read this you must by @kevinroose @nicoleperlroth and @sheeraf via @NYTimes https://www.nytimes.com/...
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Kevin Roose on x
New by me, @sheeraf and @nicoleperlroth: a deep dive into how Facebook, Twitter, and Google are preparing for the 2020 election. (Remember the 2020 election?) Complete with Emirati spies, improv sketches, Daily Wire drama, and more. https://www.nytimes.com/...
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.@juddlegum proved with detail that Daily Wire was breaking their rules and @facebook was like ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. Keep in mind that Facebook also considers Breitbart to be a “trusted” news source and they've never given an answer why. This is appalling.