Facebook Prepares Potential Emergency Measures for the Election: Report

Mark Zuckerberg testifies before the House Financial Services Committee in October 2019. Photo: Getty Images In preparation for possible unrest related to the election, Facebook is planning for a potential rollout of internal tools designed to slow the spread of misinformation in “at-risk” countries, according to a new Wall Street Journal report.

While executives have stated that they would only enact such a plan if something as serious as election-related violence were to occur, the measures reportedly include “slowing the spread of viral content and lowering the bar for suppressing potentially inflammatory posts,” as well asIn the wake of the platform’s decision to slow the spread of spuriously sourced New York Post reports on Hunter Biden’s business connections in Ukraine, a potential platform-wide action to slow misinformation would...

The threat of post-election violence in the United States is not hypothetical. The recent domestic-terrorist plot to kidnap Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer was planned in part on Facebook. And according to a review of far-right groups by the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project and MilitiaWatch, researchers found “that groups are organizing to ‘supplement’ the work of law enforcement.

In the midst of an election, a pandemic, and a summer of unrest, Facebook has taken unprecedented steps to limit the spread of misinformation and the organization of violent movements on its platforms. In June, it banned hundreds of accounts and pages associated with the loosely organized, anti-government Boogaloo movement. The next month, Facebook deleted a video shared by the president which claimed that face coverings are ineffective and that hydroxychloroquine cures COVID-19.

🤬 Fb put my friend Veronica in Fb Jail for... her words 'Facebook locked me out of my account for 20 hours because I am encouraging others to vote. I have 2 more hours before I can post or comment'🤬

How did this happen ? Zuckerberg and Sandberg used behavioural psych, dopamine and serotonin. If you know and understand this you must do something about it,

dcminx lulz! anything new about this platform

dcminx Why on earth does anyone still use that toxic platform?

Why wait until election violence becomes a reality? It's not asking too much for social media networks to take action to avoid election violence before it becomes a reality.

They should DO IT, don’t wait til people die.

Facebook is bad for our planet. Delete Facebook.

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