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[Link] OK, So Facebook Is Bad. Now What?

Read: 15/11/2021 www.vice.com

Evidence has been mounting for years that Facebook is harmful for its users. Countless reports have documented how the company’s algorithms push people toward radicalization, allow extremist movements to grow, and spread misinformation on an unprecedented scale. 

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[Link] Facebook says Craig Kelly’s content on United Australia Party page OK after banning MP

Read: 19/10/2021 www.theguardian.com

Facebook says the United Australia Party’s page does not violate the social media giant’s community standards despite carrying prominent content from Craig Kelly, whose accounts have been banned for breaching the social media company’s misinformation policy.

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[Link] Ex-Fox host claims Facebook defamed him by fact-checking climate change videos

Read: 29/9/2021 arstechnica.com

Former Fox Business host John Stossel is suing Facebook, alleging that the social media company and one of its contracted fact-checking organizations defamed him when it flagged two of his videos, alerting viewers to “missing context” and “partly false” claims.

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[Link] Leaked documents reveal the special rules Facebook uses for 5.8M VIPs

Read: 14/9/2021 arstechnica.com

Facebook had a problem on its hands. People were making posts that got caught in the company’s automated moderation system or were taken down by its human moderators. The problem wasn’t that the moderators, human or otherwise, were wrong to take down the posts.

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[Link] Facebook: some high-profile users ‘allowed to break platform’s rules’

Read: 14/9/2021 www.theguardian.com

Facebook gives high-profile users special treatment, which includes immunity from its rules for some, and allowed Brazilian footballer Neymar to post nude pictures of a woman who had accused him of rape, according to a report.

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