Sunday, February 23, 2020

Facebook exec in 2016 warned taking down misinformation would 'disproportionately affect conservatives': report | TheHill

A Facebook executive in 2016 warned the company that taking down all instances of political misinformation would unfairly target conservative users of the social network, The Washington Post reported on Thursday. The reported warning came in the weeks following the 2016 presidential election, when Facebook was in the early stages of developing "Project P" — for propaganda — in an effort to streamline how misinformation about American elections and politics was identified and removed from the site.
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/483890-facebook-exec-in-2016-warned-taking-down-misinformation-would



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