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[return to "Testimony to House committee by former Facebook executive Tim Kendall"]
1. save_f+q8[view] [source] 2020-09-24 16:05:14
>>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.

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2. anigbr+cj[view] [source] 2020-09-24 16:53:00
>>save_f+q8
Sadly unsurprising. I have Facebook sockpuppet accounts that I use just for researching extremist types and I am constantly amazed at how much of the work FB does for me.
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