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Amid the Capitol riot, Facebook faced its own insurrection

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Just days after insurrectionists stormed the Capitol on January 6th, Facebook's Chief Operational Officer Sheryl Sandberg downplayed her company's role in what had happened.

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Amid the Capitol riot, Facebook faced its own insurrection

As supporters of Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6th, battling police and forcing lawmakers into hiding, an insurrection of a different kind was taking place inside the world’s largest social media company. Thousands of miles away, in California, Facebook engineers were racing to tweak internal controls to slow the spread of misinformation and inciteful content. Emergency actions — some of which were rolled back after the 2020 el…

2 years ago·Los Angeles, United States

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CTV News

Not stopping 'Stop the Steal:' Facebook Papers paint damning picture of company's role in insurrection

Facebook documents, reviewed by CNN, including an internal post-mortem and one document showing in real time countermeasures Facebook employees were belatedly implementing, paint a picture of a company that was in fact fundamentally unprepared for how the Stop the Steal movement used its platform to organize, and that only truly swung into action after the movement had turned violent.

2 years ago·Canada

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The Independent

Amid the Capitol riot, Facebook faced its own insurrection

New internal documents provided by former Facebook employee-turned-whistleblower Frances Haugen provide a rare glimpse into how the company, after years under the microscope for the policing of its platform, appears to have simply stumbled into the Jan. 6 riot

2 years ago·London, United Kingdom

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Amid the Capitol riot, Facebook faced its own insurrection

2 years ago·United States

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CNN

Not stopping 'Stop the Steal:' Facebook Papers paint damning picture of company's role in insurrection

Just days after insurrectionists stormed the Capitol on January 6th, Facebook's Chief Operational Officer Sheryl Sandberg downplayed her company's role in what had happened.

2 years ago·Atlanta, United States

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CBS Local

Amid the Capitol Riot, Facebook Faced Its Own Insurrection

WASHINGTON (AP) — As supporters of Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6th, battling police and forcing lawmakers into hiding, an insurrection of a different kind was taking place inside the world’s largest social media company.Thousands of miles away, in California, Facebook engineers were racing to tweak internal controls to slow the spread of misinformation and inciteful content. Emergency actions — some of which were rolled back af…

2 years ago·United States

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