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>>aaronb+(OP)
> In 2016, internal analysis at Facebook found 64% of all extremist group joins were due to their own recommendation tools. Yet repeated attempts to counteract this problem were ignored or shut down.

That's pretty damning. Facebook execs knew that extremist groups were using their platform and Facebook's own tooling catalyzed their growth, and yet they did nothing about it.

>>save_f+q8
How did they define "extremist" in that analysis? And how many total people are we talking about?

Seems like the relevance of that line really depends on answers to both. I.e., if extremist is super narrow we may be talking about 64 people out of 100. If extremist is overly broad, then maybe all the recommendations were for groups that a majority of the population would not find offensive.

Just saying the line by itself without context doesn't convey as much information as it first appears.