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• @themarkup @themarkup on x

  Facebook is blaming technical issues for its broken promise to Senator Markey and Congress that it would stop recommending political groups to its users before the November election. @alfredwkng and @leonyin report. https://themarkup.org/...

• @justinhendrix Justin Hendrix on x

  Good stuff @WillOremus. Not enough has been said about this pronouncement from Zuckerberg. Incredible, unchecked power he wields.... to diminish political discussion or fuel its conflagration into violence. Both extremely concerning. https://twitter.com/...

• @alfredwkng @alfredwkng on x

  Oct. 28: Zuckerberg told Markey that Facebook would temporarily stop recommending political groups. Jan. 27: Zuckerberg said they would stop doing it permanently. Facebook was recommending political groups that whole time: https://themarkup.org/... https://twitter.com/...

• @evan_greer Evan Greer on x

  I find it astounding that anyone who considers themself to be progressive or left of center would cheer on Facebook algorithmically suppressing “politics,” as if what is defined as “political” is not dictated by oppressive dominant narratives https://themarkup.org/... https://twi…

• @alfredwkng @alfredwkng on x

  New from me and @LeonYin: In Facebook's response to Sen. Markey, the company said it continued to recommend political groups from October to late January because of “technical issues” https://themarkup.org/...

• @leonyin Leon Yin on x

  New from me and @alfredwng for @TheMarkup: Facebook said it continued to recommend political groups due to “technical issues”. Please stand by. https://themarkup.org/...

• @leonyin Leon Yin on x

  Activists told us FB's decision to algorithmically remove “politics” from the site would be an uphill battle. @evan_greer from @fightfortheftr said this would likely, “undermine activist social movements and disproportionately silence marginalized people”. https://themarkup.org/.…

• @leonyin Leon Yin on x

  In Aug, FB's internal researchers urged leadership to stop rec'ing a group that contained “death threats against Black Lives Matter activists and members of Congress”. This group continued to be rec'd and grew by 27K members between Dec 1 and Jan 19. https://themarkup.org/...

• @dfreelon Deen Freelon on x

  What he said: “The attempt to algorithmically remove politics from platforms seems, to put it bluntly, doomed to fail.” https://themarkup.org/...

• @ramsey_isler Ramsey Isler on x

  An eye-opening chart from The Markup's latest article: https://themarkup.org/... https://twitter.com/...

• @grady_booch Grady Booch on x

  It's the computers fault. —@Facebook https://themarkup.org/...

• @matthewstoller Matt Stoller on x

  Technical issues like “wanting more advertising money.” It's very complex you wouldn't understand. https://twitter.com/...

• @jeremybmerrill Jeremy B. Merrill on x

  an oopsies meant Facebook kept algorithmically recommending misinfo-filled political groups for MONTHS after FB promised to stop contrast that with @krishnagade 's thread about on-call engineers paging ML experts to retrain models if Likes declined https://twitter.com/... https:/…

• @profcarroll David Carroll on x

  “It struck me that he was essentially a coder who had found himself managing the world's marketplace of ideas.” —@klonick on Zuck in New Yorker profile of @OversightBoard https://apple.news/... https://twitter.com/...

• @benyt Ben Smith on x

  Definitive @Klonick piece on the Facebook Oversight Board includes 👀👀 https://www.newyorker.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @davidfrum David Frum on x

  When Trump was in power, Facebook made @TheDailyCaller a fact-checking source. (Yes, you read that right.) https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ... With Trump on way out, Facebook appointed to its review board an expert who testified against Trump at his first impeachment https://www.n…

• @kellymakena Makena Kelly on x

  this @Klonick piece on facebook's oversight board is fantastic — facebookers cosplaying as founding fathers! ah! https://www.newyorker.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @robyncaplan Robyn Caplan on x

  Wow, there are some really incredible details in @Klonick's new piece for @NewYorker on the Facebook Oversight Board https://www.newyorker.com/... https://twitter.com/...