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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
According to Tim Kendall's LinkedIn, he stopped working at Facebook in 2010. So it's interesting that he claims to have internal information from 2016.

>>ipsum2+wg
It is really not that surprising. People talk. When you work for a company like this you end up with a large portion of your circle of friends being current or former co-workers. I knew things there were not NDA-cleared for years after I left various startups because people chat and if you know the right questions to ask or are reasonably good at appearing to know just a bit more than you happen to know then people will often fill in the blanks for you. The well really only runs dry when most of that cohort have also left the company.