Facebook hit by election interference content '10 years before Zuckerberg acknowledged it'

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Speaking at Sky News' Big Ideas Live event, where experts and industry leaders discussed the biggest science and technology issues of our times, Facebook's former head of global public policy said staff had to deal with misinformation 'all the time'.

Speaking at Sky News' Big Ideas Live event, where experts and industry leaders discussed the biggest science and technology issues of our times, Facebook's former head of global public policy said staff had to deal with misinformation"all the time".Facebook was encountering election interference content as far back as 2006, some 10 years before Mark Zuckerberg first acknowledged the issue, the platform's former head of global public policy has claimed.

"We saw the initial aspects of misinformation campaigns being built around elections as early as 2006 and in 2008," Mr Kelly revealed at a panel on the future of big tech companies."We actually did a number of projects to try to increase civic engagement on the platform at that time. And we certainly saw people try to use misinformation to influence elections early on at that phase.

Facebook founder Zuckerberg admitted in 2017 that he should have taken concerns about fake news leading up to the 2016 presidential election, whenHe had dismissed the notion as"crazy", but then wrote in a public post in September 2017:"Calling that crazy was dismissive and I regret it.

 

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and then Zuck and his wife indulged in election interference in 2020, without filing with the FEC. Jeez.

Farcebook where free speech is banned ….

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Those eyes have been crying.. The man who’s personal fortune has dropped $100 ‘Billion’ since September last year… he’s going to have to start shopping at Lidl with his remaining $38B 😂

There you have it. Rigged elections & a confession 10 years when nothing can be done about it

He has to pay the price sooner or later, there is no any other way to get away with the consequences.

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