Facebook whistleblower documents offer new revelations about Jan. 6 response.
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In response to a series of Wall Street Journal articles based largely on the documents provided by Haugen, Facebook's vice president of global affairs, Nick Clegg, in arejected the idea that Facebook"systematically and willfully ignores" research that is"inconvenient for the company." Another set of documents created during the events of Jan. 6 show a wider range of restrictions explored by Facebook to limit potentially harmful content and mitigate violence and incitement. The documents indicate that more severe restrictions, known internally as"break glass" measures, had been active earlier, in 2020, and then removed or rolled back.
When asked about the rollback of the measures, a Facebook official stressed that they were only part of Facebook's preparations for the election, and that specific metrics were used to determine whether or not to disable them. Measures that were disabled, the official said, were done so gradually.
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