Internal Facebook docs detail its opaque tier system for providing protection to users in certain countries, leaving gaps in Myanmar, Pakistan, and Ethiopia
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An undated case study into “adversarial harm networks in India” examined the RSS, and its use of groups and pages to spread inflammatory and misleading content. The investigation found that a single user in the RSS had generated more than 30 million views. https://www.theverge.co…
One solution could be to penalize RSS accounts. But the group's ties to India's nationalist government made that a delicate proposition. “We have yet to put forth a nomination for designation of this group given political sensitivities,” the authors said. https://www.theverge.com…
At a “Civic Summit,” Facebook employees sorted the world's nations into tiers to determine which ones it would (and would not) provide enhanced protections around upcoming global elections. U.S. was one that would get high priority. https://www.theverge.com/... (tip @techmeme)