Revelan that Facebook sabía of the organization of the violent groups five months before the attack on the Capitol

Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook (photo: Bloomberg)
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook (photo: Bloomberg)

Facebook investigations have ad que the security systems of the platform are not available adequately addressing the problem of the audio groups that difunden content and debates in the social red, by which the need to take action on respect in an information presented in August, in full electoral campaign and five months before the impact of the January 6 Capitol attack in Washington.

In the report, when the Wall Street Journal, the specialists in data indicate to the executives of the company of Mark Zuckerberg that in various “groups” private circulated a diary “called enthusiasts to the violence”. The Mayor of these forums has its ideological conservative, added the document, and also advised that some of them are administered by foreign users.

“Our current integrity systems do not address these issues”, underlined by the investigators, who state that of the 100 most active groups in the United States, 70% of the content is not recommended for being linked to audio, misinformation, intimidation and acoso. ‘We want to make it easy for you to keep up the good content and keep up the good content.”, Reclamaron.

These groups will use the Facebook tips to increase their audience, while tolerating or incentivizing audio messages.

Donald Trump is accused of inciting violence.  His followers are organizing the attack on the Capitol (Pete Marovich / The New York Times)
Donald Trump is accused of inciting violence. His followers are organizing the attack on the Capitol (Pete Marovich / The New York Times)

For example, one of these forums, dedicated to circulating the most important issues of the day to “feed a multitude wanting to inform and repeatedly violate”, exacerbates the questions of political fanaticism. Another, dubbed “Trump Train 2020, Red Wave” (Train Trump 2020, ola roja), has ten “possible Macedonian angles” in addition to having more than 2 million members before its closing in September. In addition, a group of 58 miles of integrated staff led by users presenting themselves as Trump’s followers was established by “Albanians with economic motivations” who publish links to false news portals.

Well, some tenants have a record of millions of visits, otherwise tenin the secret configuration, so that not only would it be possible to know that there is no entry of its content.

But some messages have a high load of violence. ‘I hope that you will have the opportunity to live and be paralyzed“This is a user about the Democratic Congressman Ilhan Omar, various times criticized by Trump. ‘Tal vez una bala le haría bien”, Agregó otra cuenta. And a suggestion also applies to an ejaculation: “Que vuelvan los ahorcamientos public”.

These comments are published in the group “Kayleigh McEnany Fans Club”, the former secretary of the Casa Blanca press, although she was not directly linked to her. “It was deliberately created to be a toxic atmosphere”, the investigators wrote about this forum, where false other death threats against Black Lives Matter activists. Facebook has marketed 174 times for information in three months, following its operation.

Members of the Proud Boys extremist group posing with a popular gesture in the white supremacism sectors (Reuters)
Members of the Proud Boys extremist group posing with a popular gesture in the white supremacism sectors (Reuters)

Facebook has a large medidas que muchos consideran insuficientes. In 2019, the “Groups” application was redesigned to give impetus, especially with the end of building “saludable” communities.

Through the information, the social network will have some of the most problematic groups and will have to show up in the recommendation schemes, but some restrictions will be made only temporarily, without impressing the recommendations recommended by the analysts. For this, despite the election won by Joe Biden, it is clear that the climate of controversy is maintained by the president’s infamous ads and its followers, some groups are renewing their activity with intensity.

Fue reviewed after the commissioning of the capitol on the entry of others that Facebook wanted to take medias, retracting other groups that include the standards of conduct. A day before the end, a periodical of BuzzFeed, Ryan Mac, había denunciado cómo The protesters are organized in private groups and the proprietary Facebook algorithm suggests uniting similar groups.

In the last few days, Facebook has permanently suspended the suspension of these recommendations from a card of Democratic congressmen demanding the media. In addition, the plan limits the visibility of the political content and the administrators of the groups will be obliged to oversee the content shared by the users. Before this, according to the internal investigation, many forums administrators teach the members’ n public offensive material of form that escapes the automatic filters of the red.

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