Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg conceded in a town-hall meeting with employees this week that the social giant fell down on the job in failing to remove a militia group’s “call to armsR…
Law enforcement officials said two protesters in Kenosha, Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber, were shot and killed Aug. 25 by a 17-year-old Illinois boy, who allegedly traveled to the city seeking to inflict violence. Protests erupted in Kenosha after video showed a Kenosha police officer shooting Jacob Blake, a Black man, seven times in the back in front of his children on Aug. 23.
In the town hall with employees, Zuckerberg said the team that enforces Facebook’s policy against dangerous organizations “is trained to look for symbolism and innuendo” and that the “contractors and reviewers who the initial complaints [about the Kenosha Guard] were funneled to didn’t pick this up. On second review, doing it more sensitively, the team responsible for dangerous organizations recognized that this violated the policies and we took it down.
According to the BuzzFeed News report, several Facebook employees were sharply critical of how the company handled not only the Kenosha Guard group but its failure to ban other dangerous groups like those affiliated with the QAnon conspiracy cult. Many Facebook employees have been upset about what they perceive as the company’s laissez-faire approach to hate groups and content. In June,
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