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Facebook algorithm found to actively promote Holocaust denial — Facebook search function brings up suggestions for denial pages, recommends links to publishers which sell revisionist and denial literature, as well as pages of notorious Holocaust deniers https://t.co/na9rM2nIJo
— Alfons López Tena (@alfonslopeztena) August 16, 2020
...And why do we accept this as a normal function of technology? Because the CEOs don’t know how to stop this and still make money... https://t.co/UDfNFPX3jD
— Joan Donovan, PhD (@BostonJoan) August 16, 2020
I wrote about the issue of Holocaust denial on Facebook years ago and what the company could do about it without even censoring anyone. The solution still applies: https://t.co/lqfVIXm9Yl https://t.co/yVrOJQDweT
— (((Yair Rosenberg))) (@Yair_Rosenberg) August 16, 2020
So much for technology liberating us. Nazism flourishes in broad daylight actively aided by Facebook https://t.co/AjcEo8rnWc
— Abeba Birhane (@Abebab) August 16, 2020
Let’s not forget that @Facebook is under zero obligation to allow Holocaust denialists. Or white supremacist groups. Or conspiracy mongers. As a business, they can do whatever they’d like.
— Sleeping Giants (@slpng_giants) August 16, 2020
This makes it all the more disgusting that they amplify all of it.#StopHateForProfit https://t.co/bCGHLz1LWM
How much more evidence do we need to confirm what many of us have long maintained: Facebook is deeply harmful to society and it ought to perish from this earth https://t.co/g7fy71qxkL
— onekade (@onekade) August 16, 2020
We call on @facebook to answer the ISD’s allegation. Permitting Holocaust denial as “free speech” is one thing. Actively promoting it is another. It is yiur urgent moral duty to explain: IS IT TRUE? #faceupfacebook https://t.co/rxd164Uzvc
— UK National Holocaust Centre & Museum (@HolocaustCentUK) August 17, 2020
Illegal in many European countries > Researchers also found that Holocaust denial content is readily accessible across Facebook, Twitter, Reddit and YouTube ↘️ https://t.co/z8dP4lPIsL
— Marietje Schaake (@MarietjeSchaake) August 16, 2020
Of course it does. https://t.co/qCYTeaR7Wi
— Richard Seymour (@leninology) August 16, 2020
Please go away Facebook..... https://t.co/lt0IQeyB5f
— John Markoff (@markoff) August 17, 2020
Not an article from last month or even last year. From today. Facebook not only "profits from hate." They amplify it and recommend it. https://t.co/sftRlBboJU
— Doomscrolling Eternal (@hypervisible) August 16, 2020
This might be the largest database of Nazis in the world. Are these names all public? https://t.co/anp2zVtsH8
— Samuel Sinyangwe (@samswey) August 16, 2020
BOMBSHELL: “At least 36 Facebook groups with a combined 366,068 followers which are specifically dedicated to Holocaust denial.”
— Sleeping Giants (@slpng_giants) August 16, 2020
And algorithm recommends more once they’re viewed!
Nothing has changed at @Facebook since the #StopHateForProfit campaign.
Advertisers take note. https://t.co/RNg1M6T7iZ
But again it’s the disinformation not racism, investigation is run by white people and the now active erasure of those who called it out or the danger it puts people in .. https://t.co/uo5K0CvKaz
— ??disobedient . out of order Black Gorgon ? (@Blackamazon) August 16, 2020
Society, we have a Facebook problem. (And a broader an algorithmic governance problem) https://t.co/oY8363qaL8
— Johnny Ryan (@johnnyryan) August 17, 2020
.@Facebook algorithm found to 'actively promote' Holocaust denial https://t.co/Pgbm1oB6Xb
— Auschwitz Memorial (@AuschwitzMuseum) August 16, 2020
Facebook algorithm found to 'actively promote' Holocaust denial https://t.co/8iVAmfeXZB
— The Observer (@ObserverUK) August 16, 2020
Facebook algorithm found to 'actively promote' Holocaust denial | Holocaust | The Guardian https://t.co/W3HUqHlUVv
— toomas hendrik ilves (@IlvesToomas) August 16, 2020
If it’s a ‘marketplace of ideas’ maybe don’t subsidize the shitty ones?https://t.co/2hjCzAXdCO pic.twitter.com/Z1xbxhg3Hj
— Michael Hobbes (@RottenInDenmark) August 16, 2020
Recalling @karaswisher interview with Facebook CEO Zucka covering this topic. again, too much focus is on the binary decision of taking down / leaving up - FB prefers this debate. The critical issue is Facebook “actively promotes” - that’s their biz model. https://t.co/wyp9ieomQI pic.twitter.com/QpFDhcZW9l
— Jason Kint (@jason_kint) August 17, 2020
Thinking of using Facebook? FB's algorithm “actively promotes” Holocaust denial content, @townsendmark reports https://t.co/qFq4DWpdLl
— David Beard (@dabeard) August 17, 2020
aaaaaaaand.....get the hell offa Facebook. https://t.co/EMdtJCtsZm
— Robert Young Pelton (@RYP__) August 17, 2020
Facebook algorithm found to 'actively promote' Holocaust denial https://t.co/9qvRopEnHw
— Jon Cooper ?? (@joncoopertweets) August 17, 2020
Facebook algorithm found to 'actively promote' Holocaust denial https://t.co/JVkcoP0kEG
— Dave Earley (@earleyedition) August 16, 2020
I'd love to believe this was an innocent mistake on FACEBOOQ's part but I believe their "innocent mistake" account is overdrawn @thespybrief https://t.co/ASsB41uExm
— Waffle "Tankie Terminator" Wokyleeks (@wokyleeks) August 17, 2020
It's bad enough that Facebook refuses to remove holocaust denial from its platform.
— Center for Countering Digital Hate (@CCDHate) August 17, 2020
Now their algorithms have been found to actively promote it.
Businesses advertising on Facebook can change this - pause your adverts & tell them why. #StopHateForProfithttps://t.co/o3wNKZ6kHf
Facebook algorithm found to 'actively promote' Holocaust denialhttps://t.co/LyX7NYN1Fh
— Roshan Rinaldi (@Roshan_Rinaldi) August 16, 2020
Illegal in many European countries > Researchers also found that Holocaust denial content is readily accessible across Facebook, Twitter, Reddit and YouTube ↘️ https://t.co/z8dP4lPIsL
— Marietje Schaake (@MarietjeSchaake) August 16, 2020
Facebook algorithm ‘actively promotes’ Holocaust denial content, study finds (story by @thomas_macaulay) https://t.co/kG5uhovh1s
— TNW (@thenextweb) August 17, 2020
Facebook algorithm found to 'actively promote' Holocaust denial | World news | The Guardian https://t.co/hx6QJmZlgq
— Stefano Quintarelli (@quinta) August 17, 2020
Facebook algorithm found to 'actively promote' Holocaust denial https://t.co/R3BeAnzZb3
— Fabio Chiusi (@fabiochiusi) August 17, 2020
There are 36 Facebook groups with 366,068 followers which are specifically dedicated to Holocaust denial.
— Simon Adams (@SAdamsR2P) August 17, 2020
Genocide denial is hate speech.
Shut. Them. Down. https://t.co/Cbrlspwx8P
Denying the Holocaust is antisemitic. It is a conspiracy theory suggesting that it is made up, untrue. @Facebook, please - remove this hateful material
— Karen Pollock (@KarenPollock100) August 17, 2020
Facebook algorithm found to 'actively promote' Holocaust denial @guardian @HolocaustUK https://t.co/F2sZjF8RfZ
Facebook algorithm found to 'actively promote' Holocaust denial | Holocaust - The Guardian https://t.co/bpoqaoW9Rg
— Andrew Coyne (@acoyne) August 16, 2020
"These companies ... need to ask themselves what type of platform they would like to be: one that earns money by allowing Holocaust denial to flourish, or one that takes a principled stand against it."https://t.co/a1FdGYu8D2
— TimKarr (@TimKarr) August 17, 2020
Holocaust Denial is a despicable, antisemitic conspiracy theory that Jews hoaxed the entire world and @ISDglobal's research reinforces what we know to be true: Facebook not only profits off hate, they amplify and recommend it. They must #StopHateForProfit. https://t.co/2FG5Dt1G7K
— Jonathan Greenblatt (@JGreenblattADL) August 17, 2020
"Typing 'Holocaust' in the Facebook search function brought up suggestions for denial pages, which recommended links to publishers which sell revisionist and denial literature, as well as pages dedicated to the British Holocaust denier David Irving."https://t.co/RJU90vMd1J
— Batya Ungar-Sargon (@bungarsargon) August 17, 2020
The world would be a better place if Facebook ceased existing.https://t.co/Og9bhDgZna
— Librarianshipwreck (@libshipwreck) August 17, 2020
the people most interested in the Holocaust are those who believe that it didn't happen, but should've happened. this is an unsurprising result.https://t.co/Wu0t0vJoHs
— john thenation, founder of the nation (@Theophite) August 16, 2020
Twitter next..
— COPMA (@COPIA_COPMA1) August 17, 2020
Facebook Algorithm Found to 'Actively Promote' Holocaust Denial https://t.co/ScEoTwVRwj
"Facebook announced it was banning conspiracy theories about Jewish people 'controlling the world'. However, it has been unwilling to categorise Holocaust denial as a form of hate speech, a stance that ISD describe as a “conceptual blind spot”. https://t.co/TNWgKOhRmz
— Alex DiBranco (@alexdibranco) August 17, 2020
Facebook algorithm found to 'actively promote' Holocaust denial | World news | The Guardian https://t.co/2M6dtp40g2
— Pazuzu’s Petals. (@Decervelage) August 17, 2020
"Researchers also found that Holocaust denial content is readily accessible across #Twitter, #Reddit and #YouTube": https://t.co/slPMv9aBAa Related: https://t.co/dzSKZRuEtF #ethics #Facebook #socialmedia #internet #algorithm
— Internet Ethics (@IEthics) August 17, 2020
Facebook algorithm ‘actively promotes’ Holocaust denial content, study finds (story by @thomas_macaulay) https://t.co/rGxi6g1geg
— TNW (@thenextweb) August 17, 2020