{"id":2770,"date":"2022-01-27T19:33:23","date_gmt":"2022-01-27T18:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/2022\/01\/27\/facebook-failed-to-police-election-misinformation-among-groups-the-washington-post\/"},"modified":"2022-01-27T19:33:23","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T18:33:23","slug":"facebook-failed-to-police-election-misinformation-among-groups-the-washington-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/2022\/01\/27\/facebook-failed-to-police-election-misinformation-among-groups-the-washington-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook failed to police election misinformation among groups &#8211; The Washington Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"cfbc967f0983488262956e73eca9483a\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3859091246952232\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- blok -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3859091246952232\" data-ad-slot=\"1334354390\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n\n<\/div>\n<p>Facebook groups swelled with at least 650,000 posts attacking the legitimacy of Joe Biden\u2019s victory between Election Day and the Jan. 6 siege of the U.S. Capitol, with many calling for executions or other political violence, an investigation by ProPublica and The Washington Post has found.<br \/>The barrage \u2014 averaging at least 10,000 posts a day, a scale not reported previously \u2014 turned the groups into incubators for the baseless claims supporters of President Donald Trump voiced as they stormed the Capitol, demanding he get a second term. Many posts portrayed Biden\u2019s election as the result of widespread fraud that required extraordinary action \u2014 including the use of force \u2014 to prevent the nation from falling into the hands of traitors.<br \/>\u201cLOOKS LIKE CIVIL WAR is BECOMING INEVITABLE !!!\u201d read a post a month before the Capitol assault. \u201cWE CANNOT ALLOW FRAUDULENT ELECTIONS TO STAND ! SILENT NO MORE MAJORITY MUST RISE UP NOW AND DEMAND BATTLEGROUND STATES NOT TO CERTIFY FRAUDULENT ELECTIONS NOW !\u201d<br \/>Another post, made 10 days after the 2020 election, bore an avatar of a smiling woman with her arms raised in apparent triumph and read, \u201cWE ARE AMERICANS!!! WE FOUGHT AND DIED TO START OUR COUNTRY! WE ARE GOING TO FIGHT&#8230; FIGHT LIKE HELL. WE WILL SAVE HER\u2764 THEN WERE GOING TO SHOOT THE TRAITORS!!!!!!!!!!!\u201d<br \/>One post showed a Civil War-era picture of a gallows with more than two dozen nooses and hooded figures waiting to be hanged. Other posts called for arrests and executions of specific public figures \u2014 both Democrats and Republicans \u2014 depicted as betraying the nation by denying Trump a second term.<br \/>\u201cBILL BARR WE WILL BE COMING FOR YOU,\u201d wrote a group member after Barr announced that the Justice Department had found little evidence to support Trump\u2019s claims of widespread vote-rigging. \u201cWE WILL HAVE CIVIL WAR IN THE STREETS BEFORE BIDEN WILL BE PRES.\u201d<br \/>Facebook executives have played down the company\u2019s role in the Jan. 6 attack and have resisted calls, including from its own Oversight Board, for a comprehensive internal investigation. The company also has yet to turn over all the information requested by the congressional committee studying the Jan. 6 attack, though it says it is negotiating with the committee.<br \/>But the ProPublica-Post investigation, which <a href=\"https:\/\/washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2022\/01\/04\/facebook-propublica-post-jan6-methodology\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_10\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">analyzed millions of posts<\/a> between Election Day and Jan. 6 and drew on internal company documents and interviews with former employees, provides the clearest evidence yet that Facebook played a critical role in the spread of false narratives that fomented the violence of Jan. 6.<br \/><span class=\"font--article-body font-copy hide-for-print ma-0 pb-md db italic interstitial\"><a data-qa=\"interstitial-link\" href=\"https:\/\/washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2022\/01\/04\/facebook-propublica-post-jan6-methodology\/?itid=lk_interstitial_manual_11\">Methodology: How ProPublica and The Post researched Facebook posts<\/a><\/span><br \/>Its efforts to police such content, the investigation also found, were ineffective and started too late to quell the surge of angry, hateful misinformation coursing through Facebook groups \u2014 some of it explicitly calling for violent confrontation with government officials, a theme that foreshadowed the storming of the Capitol that day amid clashes that left five people dead.<br \/>Drew Pusateri, a spokesman for Meta, Facebook\u2019s newly renamed parent company, said that the platform was not responsible for the violence on Jan. 6. He pointed instead to Trump and others who voiced the lies that sparked the attack on the Capitol.<br \/>\u201cThe notion that the January 6 insurrection would not have happened but for Facebook is absurd,\u201d Pusateri said in a statement. \u201cThe former President of the United States pushed a narrative that the election was stolen, including in-person a short distance from the Capitol building that day. The responsibility for the violence that occurred on January 6 lies with those who attacked our Capitol and those who encouraged them.\u201d<br \/><span class=\"font--article-body font-copy hide-for-print ma-0 pb-md db italic interstitial\"><a data-qa=\"interstitial-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/interactive\/2021\/capitol-insurrection-visual-timeline\/?itid=lk_interstitial_manual_16\">How one of America\u2019s ugliest days unraveled inside and outside the Capitol<\/a><\/span><br \/>To determine the extent of posts attacking Biden\u2019s victory, The Post and ProPublica obtained a unique dataset of 100,000 groups and their posts, along with metadata and images, compiled by CounterAction, a firm that studies online disinformation. The Post and ProPublica used machine learning to narrow that list to 27,000 public groups that showed clear markers of focusing on U.S. politics. Out of the more than 18 million posts in those groups between Election Day and Jan. 6, the analysis searched for words and phrases to identify attacks on the election\u2019s integrity.<br \/>The more than 650,000 posts attacking the election \u2014 and the 10,000-a-day average \u2014 is almost certainly an undercount. The ProPublica-Washington Post analysis examined posts in only a portion of all public groups, and did not include comments, posts in private groups or posts on individuals\u2019 profiles. Only Facebook has access to all the data to calculate the true total \u2014 and it hasn\u2019t done so publicly.<br \/>Facebook has heavily promoted groups since CEO Mark Zuckerberg made them a strategic priority in 2017. But the ones focused on U.S. politics have become so toxic, say former Facebook employees, that the company established a task force, whose existence has not been previously reported, specifically to police them ahead of Election Day 2020.<br \/>The task force removed hundreds of groups with violent or hateful content in the months before Nov. 3, 2020, according to the ProPublica-Post investigation.<br \/>Yet shortly after the vote, Facebook dissolved the task force and rolled back other intensive enforcement measures. The results of that decision were clear in the data ProPublica and The Post examined: During the nine increasingly tense weeks that led up to Jan. 6, the groups were inundated with posts attacking the legitimacy of Biden\u2019s election, while the pace of removals noticeably slowed.<br \/>Removals did not pick up again until the week of Jan. 6, but even then, many of the groups and their posts remained on the site for months after, as Trump supporters continued to falsely claim election fraud and press for states to conduct audits of the vote or impose new voting restrictions.<br \/>\u201cFacebook took its eye off the ball in the interim time between Election Day and January 6,\u201d said a former Integrity team employee who worked on the groups task force<b> <\/b>and, like others, spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive internal matters. \u201cThere was a lot of violating content that did appear on the platform that wouldn\u2019t otherwise have.\u201d<br \/>Pusateri denied that the company had pulled back on efforts to combat violent and false postings about the election after the vote. He did not comment on the quantitative findings of the ProPublica-Post investigation.<br \/>\u201cThe idea that we deprioritized our Civic Integrity work in any way is simply not true,\u201d he said. \u201cWe integrated it into a larger Central Integrity team to allow us to apply the work that this team pioneered for elections to other challenges like health-related issues for example. Their work continues to this day.\u201d<br \/><span class=\"font--article-body font-copy hide-for-print ma-0 pb-md db italic interstitial\"><a data-qa=\"interstitial-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2021\/10\/22\/jan-6-capitol-riot-facebook\/?itid=lk_interstitial_manual_27\">Inside Facebook, Jan. 6 violence fueled anger, regret over missed warning signs<\/a><\/span><br \/>The investigation also reveals a problem with the way Facebook polices its groups. Former employees say groups are essential to the company\u2019s ability to keep a stagnant American user base as engaged as possible and boost its revenue, which reached nearly $86 billion in 2020.<br \/>But they say that as groups have grown more central to Meta\u2019s bottom line, the company\u2019s enforcement efforts have been weak, inconsistent and heavily reliant on the work of unpaid group administrators to do the labor-intensive job of reviewing posts and removing the ones that violate company policies. Many groups have hundreds of thousands or even millions of members, dramatically escalating the challenges of policing posts.<br \/>With the administrators themselves steeped in conspiracy theories about the election or, for example, the safety of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/coronavirus\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_31\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"contextual_link\" rel=\"noopener\">coronavirus<\/a> vaccines, reliable enforcement rarely takes place, say former employees. They say automated tools \u2014 which search for particular terms indicating policy violations \u2014 are ineffective and easily evaded by users simply misspelling key words.<br \/>\u201cGroups are a disaster,\u201d said Frances Haugen, a former member of Facebook\u2019s Civic Integrity team who filed a whistleblower complaint against the company and testified before Congress warning about the damaging effects of the company on democracy worldwide, as well as other problems.<br \/>Many of the group posts identified in the analysis fell into what a March internal Facebook report, first published by Politico, defined as<a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/21090921-consumer-harmful-non-violating-narratives-is-a-problem-archetype-in-need-of-novel-solultions-march-2021#document\/p2\/a2061302\"> <\/a>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/21090921-consumer-harmful-non-violating-narratives-is-a-problem-archetype-in-need-of-novel-solultions-march-2021#document\/p2\/a2061302\">harmful non-violating narratives<\/a>.\u201d This refers to content that does not break Facebook\u2019s rules but whose prevalence can cause people to \u201cact in ways which are harmful to themselves, others, or society at large.\u201d<br \/>The report warned that such harmful narratives could have had \u201csubstantial negative impacts including contributing materially to the Capitol riot and potentially reducing collective civic engagement and social cohesion in the years to come.\u201d<br \/>Pusateri declined to comment on specific posts but said the company does not have a policy forbidding posts or comments that attack the legitimacy of the election. He said the company has a dedicated groups integrity team and an <a href=\"https:\/\/about.fb.com\/news\/2019\/08\/private-groups-safety\/\">ongoing initiative<\/a> to protect people who use groups from harm.<br \/>Facebook officials have noted that more-extreme content flowed through smaller social media platforms in the buildup to the Capitol attack, including detailed planning on bringing guns or building gallows that day. But Trump also used Facebook as a key platform for his lies about the election right up until he was banned on Jan. 6. And Facebook\u2019s reliance on groups to drive engagement gave those lies unequaled reach. This combined with the sag in post-election enforcement to make Facebook a key vector for pushing the ideas that fueled violence on Jan. 6.<br \/>Critics and former employees say this also underscores a recurring issue with the platform since its founding in Zuckerberg\u2019s Harvard University dorm room in 2004: The company recognizes the need for enforcement only after a problem has caused serious damage, often in the form of real-world mayhem and violence.<br \/><span class=\"font--article-body font-copy hide-for-print ma-0 pb-md db italic interstitial\"><a data-qa=\"interstitial-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/interactive\/2021\/jan-6-insurrection-capitol\/?itid=lk_interstitial_manual_40\">The Attack: Before, During and After<\/a><\/span><br \/>Facebook didn\u2019t discover a campaign by the Russia-based Internet Research Agency to spread hyperpartisan content and disinformation during the 2016 presidential election until months after Americans had voted. The company\u2019s actions were late as well when Myanmar\u2019s military leaders used Facebook to foment rapes, murders and forced migrations of minority Rohingya people. Facebook has apologized for failings in both cases.<br \/>The response to attacks on the legitimacy of the 2020 U.S. presidential election was similarly slow, as company officials debated among themselves whether and how to block the rapidly metastasizing lies about the election. The data shows they acted aggressively and comprehensively only after Trump supporters had battered their way into the Capitol, sending lawmakers fleeing for their lives.<br \/>The ProPublica-Post investigation \u201cis a new and very important illustration of the company\u2019s unfortunate tendency to deal with safety problems on its platform in a reactive way,\u201d said Paul Barrett, deputy director of the Center for Business and Human Rights at New York University\u2019s Stern School of Business. \u201cAnd that almost by definition means that the company will be less effective, because it will not be looking out into the future and preventing problems before they happen.\u201d<br \/>Facebook\u2019s newly vigorous enforcement actions the week of Jan. 6 \u2014 which resulted in Trump himself being banned from the platform \u2014 marked such a stark contrast from the company\u2019s previous approach that some Trump supporters took to Facebook to complain about the reversal.<br \/>\u201cFacebook is Getting Real Brave and Vicious Now,\u201d Jerry Smith, a retired police officer from Missouri who created and ran a group called United Conservatives for America, wrote the day after the Capitol attack. \u201cThey Are Removing Tons of Posts From My Groups!\u201d<br \/>In a recent interview at his home, Smith said he could not remember writing that message or which deletions prompted his response. He said he opposed political violence and posts that called for it. But he acknowledged it was difficult for him to remove such content as United Conservatives for America\u2019s membership swelled to more than 11,000, with the number of posts surpassing what one person could monitor. The typical group in the ProPublica-Post analysis had more than 1,000 members.<br \/>Smith, who showed a reporter that his Facebook account had received 116 notifications for breaking company rules, said he found some of Facebook\u2019s policies reasonable but disagreed on how they should be enforced. He posted in United Conservatives for America and other groups at a frenetic pace long before Election Day. As early as the summer of 2020, he warned about alleged Democratic Party plans to steal the election and also shared false information about the pandemic, including a video from a conspiracy theorist about the origins of the virus.<br \/>\u201cAnd DEMS Are Pushing For Vote By Mail. Another Way For Them To Steal The Election,\u201d he wrote in August 2020.<br \/>In the interview, Smith said he believes that American elections often are rigged and worries that coronavirus vaccines may be tainted. He has used Facebook groups to share these beliefs with tens of thousands of people \u2014 and thinks Facebook\u2019s enforcement of its policies is overly aggressive and a result of political bias against conservatives.<br \/>\u201cAre you going to do away with their free speech?\u201d Smith said. \u201cIf someone thinks it\u2019s not a fair election \u2026 why can\u2019t they have their opinion on whether it\u2019s a fair election or not?\u201d<br \/>Facebook\u2019s problems with groups had long been obvious to company employees, who gathered on a remote video conference in early September 2020 to figure out how to stop them from spreading hate, violent threats and misinformation as Election Day approached, according to former employees.<br \/>Known as the Group Task Force, the new unit they formed consisted of members of Facebook\u2019s Civic Integrity team, the specialized unit charged with protecting elections on the platform, as well as employees from engineering and operations teams who help oversee the contract moderators who review posts flagged by users or by automated systems, former employees said. The goal of the task force was to identify political groups with large numbers of posts and comments that violated the social media giant\u2019s rules against hate speech and calls for violence. Former employees involved in the effort said they wanted to apply the platform\u2019s rules while respecting political debate and dialogue.<br \/>At the same time, Facebook\u2019s Dangerous Individuals and Organizations team was identifying and removing QAnon groups ahead of the election. The results of the two teams\u2019 actions were striking. All of the more than 300 QAnon groups identified by ProPublica and The Post had been removed by October 2020, when Facebook announced a total ban on the movement, the analysis found.<br \/>In the end, the Group Task Force removed nearly 400 groups whose posts had been seen nearly 1 billion times before Election Day, according to a post on Workplace, Facebook\u2019s internal discussion tool. The document later was included in the Facebook Papers disclosed by Haugen to Congress and the Securities and Exchange Commission. Still, members of the task force told ProPublica and The Post that the existence of such a team was an indictment of Facebook\u2019s failure to police groups as part of its normal operations.<br \/>\u201cThe whole thing of the civic team needing to come in and do the takedowns was not a good state of affairs,\u201d said one employee involved in the task force. \u201cYou could make a good argument that this should have already been done.\u201d<br \/><span class=\"font--article-body font-copy hide-for-print ma-0 pb-md db italic interstitial\"><a data-qa=\"interstitial-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2020\/11\/01\/facebook-election-misinformation\/?itid=lk_interstitial_manual_63\">Facebook\u2019s fact-checking favors conservatives in election lead-up<\/a><\/span><br \/>On Nov. 5, 2020, Facebook banned \u201cStop the Steal,\u201d a hugely viral group created on Election Day itself that quickly attracted over 300,000 members around a message rooted in attacking the legitimacy of the election. The company cited the prevalence of posts calling for violence and using hate speech in banning the group and all other groups using a similar name.<br \/>The next day, Nov. 6, the Group Task Force gathered virtually to celebrate its efforts, former employees said. Days later, a task force member published a Workplace post titled \u201cSome Reflections on US2020\u201d to bring attention to its work.<br \/>\u201cAlong with heroic efforts from other teams across the company, I truly believe the Group Task Force made the election safer and prevented possible instances of real world violence,\u201d said the post.<br \/>But the focus on U.S. political groups and content undermining the election wouldn\u2019t last.<br \/>On Dec. 2, 2020, Facebook executives disbanded the Civic Integrity team and scattered its members to other parts of Facebook\u2019s overall integrity team, reducing their influence. That resulted in the demise of the Group Task Force. The company also rolled back several emergency measures that had been put in place leading up to Election Day to control misbehavior in Facebook groups.<br \/>The ProPublica-Post investigation reveals the result: During the lull in enforcement, hundreds of thousands of posts questioned the legitimacy of Biden\u2019s victory, spread lies about voter fraud and at times called for violence. Meanwhile, the company\u2019s pace of group removals slowed to a crawl, the data analysis shows.<br \/>Among the content spreading in groups were videos in which former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn spread false claims of electoral fraud and called for martial law. (Through a spokesperson, Flynn declined to comment.) Another frequent post was a cartoon showing Trump chasing a masked Biden, who carried a bag labeled \u201celection theft,\u201d with swing states depicted inside. It was posted more than 350 times in the political groups analyzed by ProPublica and The Post, attracting over 2,500 total likes.<br \/>One meme featured a photo of former congressman Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.), who rose to fame in right-wing circles by leading a congressional committee\u2019s investigation into the deadly 2012 attack on the American diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, accompanied by the text \u201cIf you are ok with rigging an election to win, I am ok with martial law to stop you\u2026\u201d That was posted in groups at least 97 times, garnering over 3,500 total likes. Gowdy has denied saying the phrase.<br \/>Another meme showed a photo of Trump winking, with the text \u201cNot Only Can Martial Law Guarantee a Trump Victory, It Also Allows Trump To Arrest Anyone He Wants!\u201d It was posted at least 70 times, generating more than 2,400 total likes. The images and their spread in groups were identified using a CounterAction image-analysis tool.<br \/>\u201cEveryone needs to make a show of FORCE in DC on the 6th and any congress who doesnt follow the constitution or who doesnt stand up for our president (Pence included) needs to be \u2019corrected\u2019 by WE the PEOPLE &#8211; on the front steps of the state house &#8211; for all the world to see!!! THIS IS HOW THE US DEALS WITH HER TRAITORS!!!\u201d read one post from Dec. 27, 2020.<br \/>Ten days later, as rioters stormed the Capitol, the ProPublica-Post analysis shows, Facebook began taking down groups at a rate not seen since before the election. An internal Facebook spreadsheet from Jan. 6, which was included in Haugen\u2019s disclosures, contains a section called \u201cAction Items.\u201d The top bullet point was a direction to conduct a \u201cSweep of Groups with V&amp;I risk\u201d \u2014 a term referring to violence and incitement.<br \/>It had been 35 days since the Civic Integrity team, and with it the Group Task Force, had been disbanded.<br \/>Months after the Capitol was breached, Facebook still was working to remove hundreds of political groups that violated company policies.<br \/>One of those was Smith\u2019s United Conservatives for America, which continued to carry posts attacking the legitimacy of Biden\u2019s election until Facebook removed it in May.<br \/>When Smith met with a reporter in his home early last month, he\u2019d just finished a 30-day posting ban on Facebook. Despite his account\u2019s history of violations, he was still managing at least one Facebook group \u2014 also called United Conservatives for America.<br \/>Like its predecessor, the new United Conservatives for America group was racking up strikes for violations of Facebook\u2019s rules, according to a post Smith made to the group in September.<br \/>That post included a screenshot of an automated message from Facebook informing him that eight recent posts in the new United Conservatives for America group had been flagged by fact-checkers. As a result, the distribution of the group\u2019s posts was being limited.<br \/>Smith remained defiant.<br \/>\u201cI&rsquo;m Not Blaming Our Members,\u201d Smith wrote. \u201cI\u2019m Blaming FakeBook!\u201d<br \/>Late last month, after being asked about Smith\u2019s account and group, Facebook said it banned his profile and removed United Conservatives for America, citing unspecified violations of its community standards.<br \/><b>About this story<\/b><br \/>Read how ProPublica and The Post researched election-related posts in Facebook groups in <a href=\"https:\/\/washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2022\/01\/04\/facebook-propublica-post-jan6-methodology\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_90\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">our methodology<\/a>.<br \/><i>Craig Timberg is a technology reporter and Jeremy B. Merrill is a data reporter for The Post. Craig Silverman is a national reporter and Jeff Kao is a computational journalist at ProPublica. Tom Hamburger contributed to this report. Graphics by Chris Alcantara and Kate Rabinowitz. Design by Irfan Uraizee.<\/i><br \/>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2021\/10\/25\/what-are-the-facebook-papers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>Facebook Papers<\/b><\/a> are a set of internal documents that were provided to Congress in redacted form by Frances Haugen\u2019s legal counsel. The redacted versions were reviewed by a consortium of news organizations, including The Washington Post.<br \/>The trove of documents show how <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2021\/10\/25\/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-whistleblower\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg<\/b><\/a> has, at times, contradicted, downplayed or failed to disclose company findings on the impact of its products and platforms.<br \/>The documents also provided new details of the social media platform\u2019s role in fomenting the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2021\/10\/22\/jan-6-capitol-riot-facebook\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>storming of the U.S. Capitol<\/b><\/a>. An investigation by ProPublica and The Washington Post found that Facebook groups swelled with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2022\/01\/04\/facebook-election-misinformation-capitol-riot\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>at least 650,000 posts attacking the legitimacy of Joe Biden\u2019s victory<\/b><\/a> between Election Day and Jan. 6.<br \/>Facebook engineers gave <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2021\/10\/26\/facebook-angry-emoji-algorithm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>extra value to emoji reactions, including \u2018angry,\u2019<\/b><\/a> pushing more emotional and provocative content into users\u2019 news feeds.<br \/><b>Read more from The Post\u2019s investigation:<\/b><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2021\/10\/25\/what-are-the-facebook-papers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Key takeaways from the Facebook Papers<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2021\/10\/26\/frances-haugen-facebook-whistleblower-documents\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Frances Haugen took thousands of Facebook documents. This is how she did it.<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2021\/10\/24\/india-facebook-misinformation-hate-speech\/\">How Facebook neglected the rest of the world, fueling hate speech and violence in India<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/interactive\/2021\/how-facebook-algorithm-works\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How Facebook shapes your feed<\/a><br \/>News<span class=\"pl-xxs\">\u2022<\/span><br \/>News<span class=\"pl-xxs\">\u2022<\/span><br \/>News<span class=\"pl-xxs\">\u2022<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2022\/01\/04\/facebook-election-misinformation-capitol-riot\/\">source<\/a><\/p>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook groups swelled with at least 650,000 posts attacking the legitimacy of Joe Biden\u2019s victory between Election Day and the Jan. 6 siege of the U.S. Capitol, with many calling for executions or other political violence, an investigation by ProPublica and The Washington Post has found.The barrage \u2014 averaging at least 10,000 posts a day, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAow1sXXCw:productID":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}