[HN Gopher] Facebook whistleblower to claim company contributed ...
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       Facebook whistleblower to claim company contributed to Capitol
       attack
        
       Author : erdo
       Score  : 67 points
       Date   : 2021-10-03 20:06 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.theguardian.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.theguardian.com)
        
       | noxer wrote:
       | >The violence and chaos of the attack sent shockwaves throughout
       | the US, and the rest of the world, and saw scores of people
       | injured and five die.
       | 
       | Stopped reading right there. I'm not even American and I know
       | this has been debunked long time ago. There was only one person
       | shot by capitol police who died as direct consequence of the
       | storming. Some other people died because of self-inflicted body
       | harm (overdosing for example) or entirely unrelated health
       | issues.
       | 
       | This is propaganda.
        
         | DarknessFalls wrote:
         | Does it matter? There will people raiding through the Capitol
         | with slip knots and plastic binders, ready to have a kangaroo
         | court. I don't know how much of the footage you've watched, but
         | it was anything but a peaceful protest. It was a violent
         | uprising. It's just that the mob was mostly comprised of a
         | bunch of fuckups, so they were fortunately unsuccessful in
         | their attempt at insurrection.
        
           | noxer wrote:
           | >Does it matter?
           | 
           | Yes it does, it makes the difference between journalism and
           | propaganda. If you dont care about the truth I cant help you.
        
       | jldugger wrote:
       | Makes sense; you can't take credit for the Arab Spring and then
       | hold yourself harmless for the Capital insurrection.
        
       | 1vuio0pswjnm7 wrote:
       | https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21075249/facebook-mem...
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       | "Indeed, polarizing content and misinformation are also present
       | on platforms that have no algorithmic ranking whatsoever,
       | including private messaging apps like iMessage and WhatsApp."
       | 
       | If these services were truly private how would Facebook know what
       | type of content peoples' messages contain.
        
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       | NotChina wrote:
       | What are the names of the five people listed as having been
       | killed? One is well know, unsure about these other four.
        
       | gfodor wrote:
       | Every time we hear about how Facebook didn't do enough to shut
       | down this or that kind of speech on their platform, where that
       | speech was legal, it should be recognized as smuggling in the
       | basic assumption that it is perfectly ok we have a centralized
       | company (and in Facebook's case, an individual) with the power to
       | influence global discourse to the degree Facebook does.
        
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