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🍎 Apple CEO Tim Cook has become a globe-trotting lobbyist, and he’s on a mission to shield his company from regulatory threats.
TTP is keeping tabs on Cook’s activity with a new report that tracks his interactions with both U.S. and foreign officials.
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THREAD: Facebook has once again found itself at the center of a radicalized movement that ended in murder.
From white supremacist to boogaloo to militia groups, Facebook has served as a primary organizing mechanism, and Kenosha, Wisconsin, was no different.
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#NEW
: Engine is a San Francisco-based nonprofit that claims to be the “voice of startups in government.”
Evidence suggests, however, that Engine is little more than a creation of the biggest lobbying giant of them all: Google.
Read our new report here:
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NEW: Facebook has failed to effectively crack down on militia and election conspiracies. Now, it's accelerating the growth of a new far-right movement.
For months, followers of the “Patriot Party" movement have been organizing and recruiting on Facebook.
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NEW: THREAD Zuckerberg is about to face lawmakers two months after the Capitol riot. But Facebook still hasn’t fixed its militia problem.
TTP found 200+ pages, dozens of groups and profiles for militia despite Facebook's promises to remove such content
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THREAD: NEW investigation by TTP has found that Instagram has shielded President Donald Trump from potentially negative hashtags while allowing parallel content about Joe Biden to be hijacked by disinformation and smears
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This is not the first (or even the second or third) time this issue has been raised.
In May 2020 TTP found that Facebook was auto-generating pages for white supremacist groups
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NEW: Facebook had a big PR push around its voter registration drive –but it got off to a slow and halting start amid complaints by the Trump campaign
Emails obtained by TTP show that FB walked back its initiative promises, frustrating some state officials
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”Feels like we’re caught in a cycle of responding to damage after it’s already been done rather than constructing mechanisms to nip these issues before they result in real harm.”
- NZ Mosque Shooting- FB Live
- Boogaloo boi murderer in Oakland- FB Groups
- Kenosha Guard- FB Page
Facebook employees are furious and unloaded on Mark Zuckerberg during an all-hands meeting yesterday over his handling of QAnon and a Kenosha militia page that remained online after a shooting that killed two people. Here's my dispatch from inside:
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NEW: Facebook played a key role in radicalizing people who took part in the Jan. 6 insurrection.
TTP's investigation found the platform is still failing to stem the flow of far-right militias and continuing to profit from ads recruiting militia.
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NEW: 5 years after Charlottesville, Facebook is still failing to remove white supremacist groups, auto-generating pages for the groups, and even profiting from searches for them.
Facebook disturbingly ran ads for Black churches in searches for KKK groups.
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NEW: TTP investigation finds that Facebook's failures to stem the flow of election conspiracies that led to the Capitol riot.
Now, it’s failing again with misinformation about Arizona’s election ‘audit' — and militia are taking advantage
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NEW: For months Facebook has claimed to be cracking down on “militarized social movements.” A TTP investigation found that Facebook still actively serving as a platform for organizing militia and it’s taking ad money that encourages them to join protests.
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Since our April report, 3 boogaloo boys were arrested on terrorism-related charges
The DOJ complaint shows they coordinated through Facebook
One was not just a member of the FB groups ID'd by TTP (*which are still active*), but an admin of a local group
Joint Terrorism Task Force Charges Three Men Who Allegedly Sought to Exploit Protests in Las Vegas & Incite Violence
@LasVegasDA
@FBILasVegas
@LVMPD
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Facebook's latest boogaloo policy is too little & too late
"Too late, because these groups have already organized attacks on police and government officials, killing several. Too little, because we’ve already identified several violent boogaloo groups missed by Facebook’s ban."
Today we designated a violent US-based anti-government network as a dangerous organization and banned it from our platform. This is the latest step in our commitment to ban people who proclaim a violent mission from using our apps.
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"Facebook’s failure to disrupt the boogaloo groups allowed members to continue planning and developing new tactics, including bomb-making strategies."
Facebook's response? Disable the "suggested groups" feature in boogaloo groups
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While Facebook removed many pages following TTP's report, it removed none of the groups
The same is true with the boogaloo Facebook groups identified by TTP in April
These groups contain the hallmarks of extremist orgs yet are allowed to remain active
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Just last week, Facebook announced that it was addressing violent domestic groups and militia on the platform
This week’s Facebook event from a Wisconsin militia group reveals how ineffective that effort really was
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#NEW
: Google's initial unwillingness to comment on the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, even as other tech companies expressed their concerns, hinted at the company’s deep economic entanglements with Saudi Arabia.
Our latest post:
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Here is
@SenGaryPeters
asking Meta CPO Chris Cox to explain why FB is auto-generating pages for white supremacists, as exposed by last month's TTP report.
Cox couldn't answer, and Sen. Peters asked that he follow up with "written comments."
We look forward to those comments.
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In May 2019 an SEC whistleblower petition filed by
@StopFraud
revealed that Facebook had been auto-generating pages for white supremacist and terrorist groups
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TTP identified a user who’s been posting nearly identical content about false audits and election misinfo in multiple pro-Trump and far-right groups on a daily basis— a misinfo “superspreader” operating freely on the platform with no apparent intervention by Facebook.
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#NEW
: For the last decade, Google has defended itself against monopoly accusations with a catchy phrase: “Competition is just a click away.”
Yet our latest report (and free browser extension!) shows that's just not true. Google is virtually inescapable:
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The issue was raised in a House Homeland Security Committee hearing in June 2019 when
@MaxRose4NY
brought it up to Facebook executive Monika Bickert
But months later
@StopFraud
revealed that Facebook was *STILL* auto-generating pages for ISIS.
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A Facebook Event organized by the group Kenosha Guard called on fellow militia members to take up arms and guard businesses from protesters:
“Any patriots willing to take up arms and defend our city tonight from the evil thugs?”
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NEW: Today, TTP released a report showing that YouTube’s recommendation algorithm pushes users into ideological filter bubbles that are stronger for viewers of right-wing content. 👇THREAD👇
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NEW: The latest TTP study finds that YouTube’s algorithms are pushing boys interested in video games to content promoting real-life firearm use, gun modification tutorials, and even graphic depictions of mass shootings.
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🚨🚨🚨A NY judge has allowed a case to proceed against Meta, Snap, YouTube, Twitch, 4Chan, Discord, & Reddit for the role each company played in radicalizing the Tops shooter. According to the judge, the defendants have "viable causes of action under a products liability theory."
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NEW: X is providing premium services to the leaders of a U.S.-designated terrorist group and other sanctioned entities, according to new research from TTP.
The arrangement may be a violation of sanctions law.
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TTP found dozens militia pages were also auto-generated by Facebook.
Not only was its AI missing pages with "militia" in the name, it was actually *creating* militia pages
Users who "like" these pages are signaling militia sympathies in the "about" section of their profile
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NEW: For months, TTP has investigated the boogaloo movement on Facebook and the company's efforts to combat it
Facebook's the company’s slow and ineffective response has allowed the movement to persist on its platform. Here's what we found
[THREAD]
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WATCH: A real-time example of how Facebook's algorithm exponentially grows the Patriot Party movement.
With one "like" a user is pushed a dozen pages linked to the patriot party, militia, uprisings, & misinfo.
Facebook isn't just a mirror to society—it's an extremism amplifier.
NEW: Facebook has failed to effectively crack down on militia and election conspiracies. Now, it's accelerating the growth of a new far-right movement.
For months, followers of the “Patriot Party" movement have been organizing and recruiting on Facebook.
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@InstagramComms
@RMac18
TTP examined 20 hashtags for the Trump & Biden campaigns-all 10 Trump hashtags had the related feature blocked while the all 10 Biden ones directed users toward negative content. Also,
#bradparscale
was affected by the "bug" before his demotion but not after. How is this a bug?
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Facebook is leaving gaping holes in its crackdown on militia groups. TTP's investigation identified 201 militia pages on Facebook as of March 18, more than two months after the Capitol riot.
Roughly 70% (140) of the pages had the word “militia” in their name.
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If you still think we're overstating Google's power, consider this: Google made $4.7 billion from the news industry in 2018.
Perspective: the entire remainder of the U.S. news industry (not including Google) made $5.1 billion from digital ads in 2018:
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Facebook has a problem with auto-generating pages for extremist groups.
That means that FB, not third-parties, created and published this content.
In May, 64% (101 pages) of white supremacist group pages identified by TTP were auto-generated by Facebook
ICYMI: Facebook’s role in auto-generating pages for hate & terror groups undermines its claims that it bars such content from its platform. Thus, it’s time for Facebook to be honest about its content management.
NWC’s Chief Counsel, Sharon Eubanks writes:
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This isn't the first time Facebook events by a radical group have been linked to violence
A 2017 FB event for the white supremacist “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville was left active for weeks
The event ended in the murder of a peaceful protester
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A TTP report in May found 153 Facebook pages & 4 groups associated with white supremacist organizations
Facebook has removed 90% of the pages TTP identified
The pages that remain are among those with the most "likes"
*All of the groups remain active*
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The militia pages pushing election audit misinfo had collectively gained 1000s of members, operating openly on Facebook until this afternoon when FB was contacted by
@ThePlumLineGS
The group removal to thwart a PR fire is once again too little too late
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The
@Verge
’s
@russellbrandom
notes that Facebook has removed the event and the group’s Facebook page – amid reports that a 17-year-old was charged in connection with a shooting that left two people dead at the demonstrations.
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NEW: So-called crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs), which have been dubbed “fake abortion clinics,” have long been accused of targeting low-income women in urban areas – and TTP’s latest report shows how
@Google
is helping them do it.
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NEW:
@Meta
says it doesn’t allow ads for guns and certain gun accessories on FB and IG, but a TTP report shows that it regularly approves & profits from such ads.
As a result, users can go from browsing their feed to buying an AR-15 in just a few clicks.
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NEW: As Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg prepares to testify before
@JudiciaryDems
about online child exploitation, TTP found that Meta approved teen-targeted ads pushing dating apps, extreme weight loss, & white supremacist conspiracies.
Worse, Meta's AI generated the ad images.
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Nick Fuentes has been banned from YouTube for repeated hate-speech violations – so why is YouTube allowing Fuentes to guest-star on other channels, where he is free to endorse white supremacy, praise Adolf Hitler, and make antisemitic comments?
YouTube Shorts is allowing content that features white nationalist and Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes on its platform
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Following Charlottesville, Facebook made multiple claims that it was addressing white supremacy on the platform.
But TTP found 153 FB pages for
@splcenter
- &
@ADL
-designated white supremacist groups
After our report FB quietly removed over 80% of them
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NEW: Facebook's ongoing failures in addressing misinfo, crime, and cartel activity on their platforms have culminated in a perfect storm that preys on the most vulnerable migrants.
Facebook is facilitating human smuggling across Latin America.
THREAD 👇
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Less than a week ago,
@RMac18
reported on findings from
@TTP_updates
and
@nytimes
that Facebook was the only major platform running ads in search results for a mass shooting. And they're doing it again.
Searches today on Facebook surface ads—sometimes even before results.
While tech companies work to stop the graphic video of the Buffalo shooting from spreading on their platforms, only one has found a way to easily profit from it:
@Meta
. TTP and NYT found Facebook is monetizing searches for the video with ads.
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NEW: For months, TTP monitored and recorded threats from militia and far-right actors online.
Today, we are releasing what we gathered in that time: militia recruiting, threats to public officials, even calls for martyrdom—all posted openly on Facebook.
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It’s not just white supremacy that Facebook has failed to address
For months, TTP has investigated the boogaloo on Facebook and FB's efforts to combat it
But the company's slow and ineffective response has allowed the movement to persist on its platform.
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NEW: An investigation by TTP reveals dozens of Facebook pages where human smugglers offer migrants passage across the southern US border.
Despite years of warnings, Facebook has no proactive effort to address human smuggling on its platform.
THREAD👇
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NEW: Facebook is allowing border militias to operate on its platform, even though they violate
@Meta
policy. These groups are using Facebook to spread misinformation about migrants & organize real-world “security operations.”
Our latest report:
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But in May and June, multiple boogaloo supporters were arrested in Vegas and California plotting or engaging in real-world violence.
The commonality between all of them was their membership in Facebook groups.
FB had not adequately addressed the problem.
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The militia pages like “DFW Beacon Unit” in Dallas-Fort Worth, TX, which describes itself as a “legitimate militia” were organizing trainings
"New River Militia" in North Carolina, posted about the need to “wake up the other lions” two days after the Capitol riot.
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“It’s easy to commit to ethics, but industry doesn’t have the incentive to leave money on the table for the good of society,” says
@hartzog
in
@JudiciaryDems
AI hearing.
Instead, he points to established theories of accountability, like product liability & consumer protection.
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Facebook officially removed the first "Stop the Steal" group - only after it had amassed over 300,000 members and had multiple calls for violence.
Like clockwork, a new group has already been created👇
Once again, Facebook doing the bare minimum ineffective in combatting this.
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THREAD: Today, Facebook announced its new efforts to address the problem of Groups. But its track record on the issue leaves much to be desired.
Over the past year, the Groups feature has been used to organize violence, share bomb making instructions, and recruit militia.
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Zuckerberg touts Facebook's redirect tool for white supremacy when telling
@SenGaryPeters
about how the group deals with white supremacy groups
What he failed to note is that the tool only works in about 6% of white supremacy searches.
@adl
@splcenter
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"Facebook's advertising microtargeting is directing domestic extremists toward weapons accessories and armor that can make their militarized efforts more effective, all while Facebook profits."
- TTP Director, Katie Paul
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@donie
Unfortunately, Facebook says a lot of things are banned. That is often the case on paper, but rarely in practice.
Facebook's statement that it has "banned" white supremacist groups is true. The problem is those bans are not enforced—and Facebook is profiting from its failure to enforce its own policies.
We also tested their claim to resolve ads today and found KKK searches still monetized.
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TTP first warned about Facebook boogaloo groups in April, documenting how members were using them to organize.
Following TTP’s report, Facebook told
@letsgomathias
it took down boogaloo groups & pages and would “enforce against any violations.”
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UPDATE: One day after we released our report on Google’s failure to crack down on Russian trolls, you can *still* set up a Google AdWords account in the name of the Internet Research Agency. Simply put in its tax ID and Google populates the rest.
@MarkWarner
@SenatorBurr
Video:
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Facebook defended the decision with a blog titled: "Research Cannot Be the Justification for Compromising People's Privacy."
Considering FB's entire business model is to sell as much user info as possible, apparently profit trumps research in its hierarchy of noble causes.
NEW: Facebook says it has disabled accounts and severed API access for a group of NYU researchers running the Ad Observatory project. FB sent the same group a cease and desist letter in Oct.
The researchers are studying political ad targeting on FB
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Jan. 27 Facebook announced it was permanently ending its algorithmic recommendation of political and civic groups to users
Today, nearly 2 months later, Facebook is recommending *multiple* political groups—sandwiched b/t ones for weapons—to TTP's account for far-right monitoring
Facebook says it will permanently stop recommending political groups to users
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Facebook recently said it removed 1.3 billion fake accounts on the platform.
Yet accounts for militia organizations, an issue Facebook allegedly targets, remain active and to recruit members.
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NEW: TTP has shown how Apple's supply chain in China is connected to forced Uyghur labor. But our latest research shows how the company's deep integration in China implicates other parts of its business.
Meet Xinjiang-based wind energy company Goldwind.
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1/ Over the past decade, Google has invested heavily in European academic institutions to develop an influential network of friendly academics, paying tens of millions of euros to think tanks, universities and professors that produce favorable research. Here are some examples...
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Today, TTP launched “Broken Promises,” an interactive database documenting years of Facebook content violations and the company’s cookie-cutter statements responding to them.
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Hi
@doctorow
-- we can't speak to Amex, but when it comes to Google, it gets even worse. Last year, we documented how Google was allowing scammers to scoop up vulnerable users searching for student debt relief info.
So there's a great Thai restaurant in my neighborhood called Kiin. Yesterday, I searched for their website to order some takeout. Here's the Google result.
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The events in Kenosha are yet another example of Facebook’s failure to adequately address radicalized movements & dangerous orgs on its platform.
The continued public relations announcements regarding one-off efforts do not address the platform’s role in amplifying violence
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Facebook’s spotty track record in removing these extremists, despite intense media attention on the issue and pressure from lawmakers, provides a window into Facebook’s deeper dysfunction policing radicalization on its platform.
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NEW: Just 1 week after far-right extremists attacked the US Capitol, Facebook pushed multiple ads for weapons accessories & tactical gear alongside posts for insurrection.
TTP shared findings from our monitoring account with
@RMac18
@BuzzFeedNews
THREAD
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TTP identified 110 new Facebook boogaloo groups that were created since June 30, when Facebook announced it was banning a “violent” boogaloo network. At least 18 of the groups were created on the same day as Facebook’s announcement and network removal.
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THREAD: TTP identified multiple boogaloo Facebook groups that organize the exact same way described here, yet they remain active.
Facebook has failed to remove these groups or even moderate content like bomb-making instructions (still active today)
Why is that,
@brianfishman
?
Facebook removes nearly 200 social media accounts linked to white supremacy groups that planned to encourage members to attend protests _ in some cases with weapons,
@DavidKlepper
reports.
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TTP's investigation also found 31 militia-related profiles, which display their militia sympathies through their names, logos, patches, posts, or recruiting efforts.
In more than half the cases (20), the profiles had the word “militia” in their name.
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NEW: TTP found that the Michigan Liberty Militia STILL has a Facebook page
The group tied to the kidnapping plot of Gov Whitmer created the new page despite Facebook's June removal of militia groups
Their new page has been active for a month and has over 300 followers
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Google has said it’s protecting people from harm and abuse during elections.
But an investigation by TTP found that Google is also helping scammers target Americans as they search for information on voting.
We’re 20 years into dealing with ads to simply steal people’s money - as distinct from mere shoddy or shady products. Google could vastly improve reporting if it wanted to. But incentives push the other way.
If outright fraud is this little policed, what hope for disinformation?
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On June 30, Facebook made an announcement claiming that it had removed a boogaloo network
The move came nearly a month after multiple boogaloo bois were arrested on counter-terrorism charges & weeks after boogaloo supporters murdered an officer in Oakland
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NEW: A TTP experiment found that Facebook approved harmful ads for children aged 13 to 17.
Ads overtly pushing content like pills, anorexia, and alcohol were approved within hours by Facebook, which targeted hundreds of thousands of kids in the US. THREAD
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NEW: As debate around antitrust reform heats up in Congress, Facebook, Google, and other Big Tech companies are quietly using a hand-picked group of small businesses to amplify their anti-regulatory messages.
THREAD 👇
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The California militia highlighted in a new piece by
@oneunderscore_
and
@CASottile
is well-known to
@TTP_updates
– we’ve been tracking their organizing on Facebook for years.
THREAD 👉
NEW from me +
@CASottile
:
As wildfires rage in Northern California, an 'Antifa'-fearing militia activates
(This is a particularly wild one.)
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Regardless of the alleged killer’s particular affiliation, he is being revered as a hero by the boogaloo bois – and memes identifying him as a king of their ideals are already circulating.
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NEW: Today we're launching the most comprehensive database of Big Tech-funded organizations to date.
The searchable tool allows anyone to see which groups have received money from Facebook, Google, or Amazon going back to 2015.
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If Twitter wants to prove that it’s safe for advertisers, it should drop API restrictions and allow independent researchers to review incidents of hate speech.
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Meanwhile, Facebook’s recommendation algorithm is pushing users who “like” militia pages toward other militia content.
When TTP “liked” the page for “Wo Co Militia,” Facebook recommended a page called “Arkansas Intelligent citizen,” which features a large III% logo as the header
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After TTP’s report earlier this month, Facebook has once again failed to remove large national-level boogaloo groups.
Several now have thousands of members, and they’re once again organizing to take up arms in places like Wisconsin and Louisiana.
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As a reminder, many at-risk children do not have adults in their lives who are able to monitor social media use and set boundaries. When tech companies lean on these solutions, they neglect an incredibly vulnerable population of users.
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Google, Apple, others bracing for antitrust war.
Notable: "The [tech] companies have been staffing their in-house legal teams with numerous antitrust lawyers who served in government."
The revolving door swings!
via
@technology
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Facebook has boasted it's 350-person counterterrorism team whenever accounts are removed
But why didn't they find any of the 153 pages that TTP found with simple searches?
The white supremacist pages identified by TTP had clear hate violations, some active for over a decade
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From
@politico
this weekend: DOJ antitrust Assistant AG Makan Delrahim helped Google acquire DoubleClick in 2007.
This sort of scenario - contracted attorney moving on to gov't position regulating former client - is common already and will likely become worse with Big Tech.
When Google needed government sign-off on a 2007 acquisition that would tighten its grip on the digital advertising market, the company turned to antitrust attorney and lobbyist Makan Delrahim. Now, Delrahim could be the one to undo it all
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Since April, TTP has released 3 reports on the boogaloo on Facebook & a report on white supremacy on Facebook.
Using Facebook's own tools, TTP ID'd 100+ boogaloo Facebook groups--twice. Many remain active.
@juliacarriew
nails it: If we can find this content, why can't Facebook?
I found this using Facebook's own tools, which can detect the text in a meme. The meme reads, "Free [shooter's name]/He is a hero. Not a criminal" over a photo of the shooter with his gun.
If I can find it in 5 minutes before coffee, why can't FB?
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NEW: Facebook has touted its efforts to combat election interference
But emails obtained by TTP reveal that Facebook is leaning on state officials to help do election misinfo monitoring for them & failing to provide tools that show the whole picture
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New study out today: Google's financial payments to news orgs appear to be winning over journalists. "Over half of respondents rated Google as average or better" in its support of journalism. Will journalists now be able to critically evaluate Google? 1/4
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As
@donie
tells
@andersoncooper
, Facebook has deleted the event posted by the Kenosha Guard militia group, but the damage has already been done.
NEW: Facebook investigating online activity around last night’s shootings in Kenosha -- an event was promoted on the platform for last night titled: "Armed Citizens to Protect Our Lives and Property.”
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Some boogaloo bois have claimed the shooter in Kenosha last night was one of their own, while others have suggested that his support of police means he’s not a boogaloo supporter.
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But in May and June, multiple boogaloo supporters were arrested in Vegas and California plotting or engaging in real-world violence, the commonality between all of them was their membership in Facebook groups.
FB had not adequately addressed the problem.
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Social media platforms seem to have forgotten all the lessons they learned on content moderation – or were never committed to it in the first place. This timeline from
@mmfa
demonstrates the shift:
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THREAD: Facebook has been claiming for months that it has addressed its militia and extremism problem.
Not only has Facebook failed to effectively address this issue, the company has been profiting from its failure to moderate extremist content with an ad interest for "militia"
The latest Facebook screw up: The social network continued to group some users as interested in militias, despite an August ban on right wing militant and extremist content. Interest categories are used by businesses on Facebook to target advertisements.
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Six of the Facebook militia groups identified by TTP were also created after Aug 19.
One group, explicitly named “Texas Militia,” launched on the afternoon of Jan. 6, in the midst of the attack on the Capitol despite Facebook's promises in the aftermath to address such content
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The boogaloo supporters who have joined their brothers’ call to arms in Wisconsin have been involved in altercations that are then broadcast in the boogaloo groups that Facebook continues to allow operating on the platform with impunity.
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THREAD: Facebook announced that it’s making its voter info labels on political posts more granular to provide context.
The switch appeared today as Trump posted misleading information about voting by mail
But the feature appears to be unevenly applied to both candidates 🧵🧵
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