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Facebook always goes for the PR solution (tell a better story) rather than just fixing the problem. https://t.co/l6MZ5Seg9N
— Martin SFP Bryant (@MartinSFP) August 20, 2021
Let’s see Q1 @Facebook. https://t.co/49Y2fRPLKi pic.twitter.com/7h2mB7GBou
— The Real Facebook Oversight Board (@FBoversight) August 20, 2021
Yikes https://t.co/YTTIvotKP4
— Isaac Stanley-Becker (@isaacstanbecker) August 20, 2021
Nothing says “rigorous science” like hiding the evidence. https://t.co/ED7PKEevs6
— Angela Bassa (@AngeBassa) August 21, 2021
Another masterpiece from the Department of Integrity at Facebook. They literally delayed being more transparent for a quarter because they didn’t like what the public would see. https://t.co/dcIyFakJha https://t.co/nC3naft45z pic.twitter.com/nSpFbNiMhH
— Jason Kint (@jason_kint) August 20, 2021
When the data is inconvenient, you "fix" the data@daveyalba @RMac18https://t.co/q2LtOhxeMs pic.twitter.com/4UZQwQwl5d
— ???? ?????????. (@GregBensinger) August 20, 2021
Their first report was so transparent the public couldn’t see it. https://t.co/XgP2mP2aOH
— Robert Hernandez ? (@webjournalist) August 21, 2021
Facebook shamelessly prefers to act as the arbiter of truth about itself. https://t.co/86Zn0pSsHL
— David Carroll (@profcarroll) August 20, 2021
The wild thing is, Facebook wouldn't be in this position at all if it had just responded to @FacebooksTop10 by saying "yes, we have a large and popular right-wing news ecosystem that generates a lot of engagement." Instead, execs decided to try to fight data with other data.
— Kevin Roose (@kevinroose) August 20, 2021
That report Facebook put out about the most-viewed content in Q2? @daveyalba and @RMac18 report that there was a Q1 version that wasn’t released. It showed that the most-viewed link was about a doctor dying from the Covid-19 vaccine. https://t.co/VYjcJSdVok
— Kevin Roose (@kevinroose) August 20, 2021
So you’re saying a story from the Chicago Tribune, inarguably a reliable and mainstream publication, is misinfo? Because that’s the most-widely viewed link cited in the report.
— Andy Stone (@andymstone) August 20, 2021
Facebook allows this content to go viral and drives traffic to Epoch Times’s website. @pubmatic makes millions of $$ of it.
— Nandini Jammi (@nandoodles) August 20, 2021
This is what their company does - with YOUR ad dollars btw!!! pic.twitter.com/UuUGiYyWeQ
This quote: “You can’t trust a report that is curated by a company and designed to combat a press narrative rather than [to provide] real meaningful transparency,” Mr. Boland said. “It’s up to regulators and government officials to bring us that transparency.” https://t.co/EOl5RA6xll
— Nicole Perlroth (@nicoleperlroth) August 21, 2021
Good read. Also, how is The Epoch Times still on FB? Their ad permissions were taken away after massive violations. Then The Epoch Times-linked org The BL (aka Epoch Times Vietnam) was also banned after spending $9.5 million in ads. What do you need to do to get banned from FB? pic.twitter.com/jZsLkSsT2o
— Jordan Liles (@jordanliles) August 20, 2021
Hard to take anything Facebook says in good faith.
— Donie O'Sullivan (@donie) August 20, 2021
Facebook didn’t release a transparency report in Q1 because it showed top link was an “article with a headline suggesting that the coronavirus vaccine was at fault for the death of a Florida doctor.”https://t.co/I09x2kU1GC
A reminder that data shared by any given company doesn’t always show the full picture. https://t.co/EaQLCc6ne7
— Marty Swant (@martyswant) August 20, 2021
Actually, fuck it. I’m so tired of these people. @bozinny basically did a Google search and felt like Epoch Times wasn’t a big deal so he lets it continue to monetize.
— Nandini Jammi (@nandoodles) August 20, 2021
This is how and why @pubmatic sends millions of dollars to Epoch Times every year. pic.twitter.com/xXsve4S5IE
Imagine that… now time for them to stall, quote some stat that doesn’t show the scale, and then promise to improve.
— Chet Faliszek (@chetfaliszek) August 20, 2021
They’ve been doing this for 17 years. https://t.co/nsAaoggsHC
Good job Zuck
— Xeni (@xeni) August 20, 2021
so Facebook was gonna roll out their new ‘widely viewed content’ report last quarter…
— Jesse Lehrich (@JesseLehrich) August 21, 2021
…but the top post was a headline implying the vaccine killed a healthy doctor viewed 54 million times so they shelved it. #transparency https://t.co/GbmQbQU08E
This kind of selective pseudo-transparency is bad and will hurt Facebook in the long run https://t.co/mqfN9uzZ5o https://t.co/0iReB4Edyg pic.twitter.com/trU6hsNwd1
— Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan) August 21, 2021
Hmm we’re in a bad place if @pubmatic (under @bozinny’s watch) is monetizing Epoch Times when even FB is afraid of touching it a/ a 10-foot pole https://t.co/Ys4XaIW3aV
— Nandini Jammi (@nandoodles) August 20, 2021
That’s not what @BrandyZadrozny is saying
— Cecilia Kang (@ceciliakang) August 20, 2021
Facebook shelved an embarrassing Reach Report that showed Covid misinfo does reach loads of users and waited until the data showed a rosier picture. It does not care about transparency. Killer work from @daveyalba and @RMac18 https://t.co/Y6oytIkLba
— Brandy Zadrozny (@BrandyZadrozny) August 20, 2021
The irony of Facebook trying to cherry-pick data for their transparency report is that the actual cherry-picked transparency report *is still very bad* https://t.co/7qoKCUWff2
— Max Woolf (@minimaxir) August 20, 2021
What was so bad that was in the report?
— Davey Alba (@daveyalba) August 20, 2021
1) The most viewed link was a news story with a headline suggesting that the coronavirus vaccine was at fault for the death of a Florida doctor.
2) A Facebook page for The Epoch Times was the 19th most popular page on the platform.
Her original tweet said: "showed Covid misinfo does reach loads of users." That's at least in part a reference to the most-viewed link in that report which was from the Chicago Tribune. Is the Trib misinfo?
— Andy Stone (@andymstone) August 20, 2021
excited for the metaverse where every piece of what you think of reality is nothing but a lie constructed by Zuck and co but yeah VR https://t.co/USbScyCfA3
— can duruk (@can) August 20, 2021
Like I am truly sick and tired of white men with banal jobs like “Senior Director of Marketplace Quality” having such enormous responsibility to the public and not taking it seriously at all.
— Nandini Jammi (@nandoodles) August 20, 2021
This story is what you call a burner ??
— Cecilia Kang (@ceciliakang) August 20, 2021
Facebook hid an earlier report w/ very damning data on how a post with Covid vaccine misinformation was viewed by tens of millions of people
via @daveyalba @RMac18 https://t.co/C6UKEAQCDE
What looks bad: FB admitting a widely viewed story added to vaccine hesitancy
— Kurt Wagner (@KurtWagner8) August 20, 2021
What looks REALLY bad: FB getting caught trying to hide that a widely viewed story added to vaccine hesitancy https://t.co/aQyDOxX8Sv
My dude this is at best willfully misreading what she said. But hey release the report and we can flesh it all out!
— Jason Abbruzzese (@JasonAbbruzzese) August 21, 2021
In the words of the Federal Trade Commission yesterday, the company cannot be trusted as its own "representations have proven meaningless on multiple occasions." https://t.co/DT2Djn7XZV
— Jason Kint (@jason_kint) August 20, 2021
On Weds, Facebook released a transparency report detailing the platform’s most popular content in Q2. We found that FB actually had an earlier Q1 report it shelved because it showed a conspiracy theory peddling news page was among its most popular. https://t.co/ZDdwMwZ7ux
— Ryan Mac? (@RMac18) August 20, 2021
Uhhhhhhhh https://t.co/EJc7PSXXYo
— Shira Ovide (@ShiraOvide) August 20, 2021
so Facebook was gonna roll out their new ‘widely viewed content’ report last quarter…
— Jesse Lehrich (@JesseLehrich) August 21, 2021
…but the top post was a headline implying the vaccine killed a healthy doctor viewed 54 million times so they shelved it. #transparency https://t.co/GbmQbQU08E
“You can’t trust a report that is curated by a company and designed to combat a press narrative rather than real meaningful transparency. It’s up to regulators and government officials to bring us that transparency.” https://t.co/yYR5XFB727
— Frank Pasquale (@FrankPasquale) August 21, 2021
“You can’t trust a report that is curated by a company and designed to combat a press narrative rather than real meaningful transparency. It’s up to regulators and government officials to bring us that transparency.” https://t.co/yYR5XFB727
— Frank Pasquale (@FrankPasquale) August 21, 2021
NEW w/ @rmac18: Facebook released its first-ever quarterly report on Widely Viewed Content this week. But an earlier report from Q1 existed and was shelved, bc execs were scared it would make the company look bad. https://t.co/SYcqhb7MQK
— Davey Alba (@daveyalba) August 20, 2021
On Weds, Facebook released a transparency report detailing the platform’s most popular content in Q2. We found that FB actually had an earlier Q1 report it shelved because it showed a conspiracy theory peddling news page was among its most popular. https://t.co/ZDdwMwZ7ux
— Ryan Mac? (@RMac18) August 20, 2021
Facebook shelved an earlier report on the most-viewed posts on the platform because they feared it would make them look bad. Why? Well…
— Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D (@RVAwonk) August 21, 2021
The most viewed link on FB was a news story (falsely) suggesting that the COVID vaccine had killed a Florida doctor.
https://t.co/qIuQWxuMGd
Last week, Facebook praised itself for being “the most transparent platform on the internet" after it released its Widely Viewed Content Report.
— Accountable Tech (@accountabletech) August 21, 2021
But they shelved an earlier version of the report because it contained a top post with vaccine misinformation.https://t.co/OaO0m1ipYi
Facebook shelved damning report showing how the platform spread vaccine misinformation: report https://t.co/l4EPSOwalr pic.twitter.com/IVB74TaTsp
— ? R Saddler (@Politics_PR) August 21, 2021
Facebook shelved damning report showing how the platform spread vaccine misinformation: reporthttps://t.co/816hggRRSv
— Raw Story (@RawStory) August 20, 2021
Facebook shelved damning report showing how the platform spread vaccine misinformation: reporthttps://t.co/Emk6Fgt2WH
— Paul Cogan (@PaulCogan) August 21, 2021
Facebook shelved damning report showing how the platform spread vaccine misinformation: report || By Bob Brigham https://t.co/x9344yJSWQ
— SafetyPin-Daily (@SafetyPinDaily) August 21, 2021
#Facebook shelved damning report showing how the platform spread vaccine misinformation
— Michael O'Grady (@mog7546) August 20, 2021
They released a quarterly report on the most-viewed posts shared on the platform, but hid another "similar damaging report for the first three months…”#MOGhttps://t.co/ZHz7zJeeuS
Facebook shelved damning report showing how the platform spread vaccine misinformation: report: https://t.co/k1RBGkmchD
— TG (@TG22110) August 21, 2021
Facebook shelved damning report showing how the platform spread vaccine misinformation: report https://t.co/TzNFLqlBiQ
— @Defeat_GOP (@defeat_gop) August 20, 2021
Facebook shelved damning report showing how the platform spread vaccine misinformation: report | By Bob Brigham https://t.co/x9344yJSWQ
— SafetyPin-Daily (@SafetyPinDaily) August 21, 2021
Facebook shelved damning report showing how the platform spread vaccine misinformation: report https://t.co/1DVwMrv7kO
— #TuckFrump (@realTuckFrumper) August 20, 2021
Facebook shelved damning report showing how the platform spread vaccine misinformation: report https://t.co/b4ssoXc7jD
— Stephen pike (@Spike9151) August 21, 2021