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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
I don't like Facebook but why would they configure a recommendation engine to stop suggesting extremist groups to people with extremist affinities ? There are no humans behind those wheels.

What else beside outright banning should have they done ? (I think banning extremists wouldn't have impacted their revenues much so they should have but that's another debate)