Facebook held back from doing all it could to stop users from being radicalized and US election misinformation from flooding the social network, according to media reports Friday.
An array of US news outlets cited documents from former Facebook worker Frances Haugen, adding to a series of critical revelations already published based on information she provided.
Articles in the New York Times, Washington Post and elsewhere on Friday focused on how Facebook apparently intensified political division.
Examples included an internal finding that 10 percent of political content viewed by US users in the days after the election perpetuated the falsehood that the vote had been rigged.
What has come to be known as the “Big Lie” has been repeated relentlessly by former US President Donald Trump and enraged his supporters, who stormed the US Capital in a deadly attack on January 6.
Read more at Times of Israel.
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I don’t know if there were irregularities or large scale instances of fraud because we were told that we are not allowed to talk about it. And there lies the crime.