The data scientist also revealed the existence of a "Hate Bait dashboard" which tracks pages that generate content that lead to the most hateful comments. The top 10 over the last 2 weeks were all conservative pages, among them Breitbart, Fox News, Trump.https://t.co/eJBodO6fO4 pic.twitter.com/GGCSvfHoDu

— Ryan Mac ? (@RMac18) December 11, 2020

You could have avoided all of this had you simply taken the time to listen to me when I was part of your fact-checking initiative, @Facebook. But now I get to enjoy this every single day. https://t.co/nN1OVjQzrf

— Brooke Binkowski (@brooklynmarie) December 11, 2020

Taking a break from my FB tweeting for a different kind of FB tweeting:

Mark Zuckerberg just told 50,000+ employees at an all-hands meeting that a vaccine will *not* be required for people who want to come back into the office.

— Ryan Mac ? (@RMac18) December 10, 2020

.@RMac18 and @CraigSilverman have done some really important reporting on Facebook this year.

This one is a must-read for what it tells us about Facebook's approach to policing hate speech https://t.co/uCXpMzzNr6 pic.twitter.com/aVdfumb4IA

— Andrea Bellemare (@andreabellemare) December 11, 2020

Working at @facebook today is like working for the cigarette companies in the 90s.

The exodus has begun. https://t.co/x7fcSFQ1RK

— Sleeping Giants (@slpng_giants) December 11, 2020

These goodbye posts aren't just empty missives. They are full of data and details. One departing data scientist estimated 5 million of the 5 billion pieces of content posted to the social network daily violates the company’s rules on hate speech. https://t.co/eJBodO6fO4

— Ryan Mac ? (@RMac18) December 11, 2020

“The implicit vision guiding most of our integrity work today is one where all human discourse is overseen by perfect, fair, omniscient robots owned by Mark Zuckerberg. This is clearly a dystopia, but one so deeply ingrained we hardly notice it any more.” https://t.co/JWN8wu1nJi

— laura olin (@lauraolin) December 12, 2020

“I think Facebook probably has a net negative effect on the quality of political discourse, at least in Western counties,” a departing Facebook data scientist says in his farewell post. Illuminating report from @RMac18 and @CraigSilverman https://t.co/gj3VBSseFW

— Casey Newton (@CaseyNewton) December 11, 2020

Using Mark Zuckerberg's own food safety analogy for hate speech, Facebook would be deemed unsafe for human consumption. You can't sell chicken that's 0.1% dirt. pic.twitter.com/YwhDRgBiUe

— Jeff Bercovici (@jeffbercovici) December 11, 2020

That’s a big number! “Using internal Facebook data and projections to support their points, the data scientist said in their post that roughly 1 of every 1,000 pieces of content.. violates the company’s rules on hate speech.”⁦ @HolliSemetko⁩ #mpol385 https://t.co/2Pj2sbvYTi

— Tarun Wadhwa (@twadhwa) December 11, 2020

Cannot emphasize enough how unusual these statements are coming from data scientists, who are not usually a fire and brimstone bunch. https://t.co/LlFUFelT3I

— Kevin Roose (@kevinroose) December 11, 2020

Also this is a very good point that isn't made enough. A lot of Facebook's problems stem from a belief that AI can rank and filter information as well as humans, despite lots of evidence that it can't. pic.twitter.com/IZllOPTWDu

— Kevin Roose (@kevinroose) December 11, 2020

more people are leaving Facebook and torching it on the way out

good internal color on "badge posts" herehttps://t.co/ehBAsz1lcj

— rat king (@MikeIsaac) December 11, 2020

Another stunning stat on turnover and hiring: Zuckerberg said in a meeting yesterday that 20,000 employees haven't even seen the inside of a FB office because they all started this year. That's roughly 35% of FB's full-time workforce.https://t.co/eJBodO6fO4

— Ryan Mac ? (@RMac18) December 11, 2020

“Their post also argued, with data, that Facebook’s ‘very apparent interest in propping up actors who are fanning the flames of the very fire we are trying to put out’ makes it impossible for people to do their jobs.” https://t.co/WF0AWDFhDi

— Kate Starbird (@katestarbird) December 11, 2020

Facebook has an internal tool called the "Hate Bait Dashboard," which quantifies posts that create "hateful" interactions. It basically looks exactly like the daily Top 10 list. https://t.co/Cht9iixASE pic.twitter.com/LxkL1Ny5V5

— Christopher Ingraham (@_cingraham) December 11, 2020

If you work at @Facebook, there are two ethical options:

1. Organize a Union
2. Quithttps://t.co/7bUAZiqhgg

— Max Berger (@maxberger) December 11, 2020

If you're one of the people that stayed on Facebook so you could have an impact through the election, time to leave! They won't change unless they see an impact. https://t.co/LMV5uWccEs

— Matthew Federman (@matthewfederman) December 12, 2020

“How is an outsider supposed to believe that we care whatsoever about getting rid of hate speech when it is clear to anyone that we are propping it up?”
Facebook employees quit citing its conservative bias and "net negative effect on the quality of political discourse" https://t.co/3Z8tacESmd

— Ellen K. Pao (@ekp) December 11, 2020

We are investing in AI, but people remain and will continue to be a critically important part of content review - both the people who report content to us, and the people on our team who review that content. It’s a balance.

— Guy Rosen (@guyro) December 11, 2020

“With so many internal forces propping up the production of hateful and violent content, the task of stopping hate and violence on Facebook starts to feel even more sisyphean than it already is...”

Oof.https://t.co/M21A40ULuY

— Dennis Gleeson (@StratGleeson) December 12, 2020

Facebook’s pointing to moderation investments will never win. It’s their core profit model which is toxic. ps I thought @CraigSilverman @RMac18 killed Facebook yesterday. What will they file tomorrow? I see a death spiral. Congrats marketers! Great association for your brands. https://t.co/OLr6EcDFWj

— Jason Kint (@jason_kint) December 11, 2020

Following their story on Facebook's off-the-rails ads practices yesterday, here's another Facebook scoop from @CraigSilverman @RMac18 aka, uh... #TheWonderHacks... I guess... https://t.co/tXaoosNfy1

— mat honan (@mat) December 11, 2020

This analysis represents a partial view of our work & incorrectly compares views & content. Prevalence (% of views) and pieces of content posted are different units. Some content gets millions of views and some none at all. Prevalence is the best way to understand the problem.

— Guy Rosen (@guyro) December 11, 2020

Thread on why some of these notes matter. https://t.co/NFyQndGWJZ

— Lisa Schmeiser (@lschmeiser) December 11, 2020

More stunning, that data scientist estimated that, even with artificial intelligence and third-party moderators, the company was “deleting less than 5% of all of the hate speech posted to FB.”

Others wrote that AI is simply not the answer to combat hate.https://t.co/eJBodO6fO4

— Ryan Mac ? (@RMac18) December 11, 2020

These are the words of a former Facebook employee. Just damning. https://t.co/e5UP9Cq6tR pic.twitter.com/NYpX8K39oE

— abolish the elf on the shelf in your heart & head (@hypervisible) December 11, 2020

Over the past few months, Facebook critics have asked why disgruntled employees haven't left. Inside FB, loyalists have told unhappy folks to vote with their feet. People are now doing so, and they're torching FB in their goodbye notes. We got them: https://t.co/eJBodO6fO4

— Ryan Mac ? (@RMac18) December 11, 2020

Facebook Gets Rich Off Of Ads That Rip Off Its Users
... According to Former and Current FB Staff https://t.co/TfpotZS6rZ

— Matt Navarra (@MattNavarra) December 11, 2020