Facebook Insider Leaks Docs; Explains “Deboosting,” “Troll Report,” & Political Targeting … Censoring Conservative News

• Facebook Insider Leaks Docs; Explains “Deboosting,” “Troll Report,” & Political Targeting … Censoring Conservative News
  by https://www.projectveritas.com/
  * Insider, Formerly Responsible for Content Review in Facebook’s Intellectual Property Dept Speaks Out, Loses Job
  * Facebook Engineers Plan to “demote bad content”
  * Conservative Facebook Page Livestreams Secretly “deboosted,” No Notice to Page Owners
  * Facebook Can Classify Users as Trolls Based on Their Vocabulary, Then Punish By Limiting Bandwidth, Blocking Comments…
  * Facebook Engineer: “‘hateful’ content is coming from right-leaning sites.”
  * “Special features” Triggered “leading up to important elections”
  * Bizarre View of “hate speech” Includes Content from Conservative Commentator
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  View the documents here.
  (Update: In the video, we said Steven Crowder’s “livestream was dethrottled,” when in fact his entire page was “dethrottled.”)
  (UPDATE 2: FACEBOOK RESPONDS “We fired this person a year ago for breaking multiple employment policies and using her contractor role at Facebook to perform a stunt for Project Veritas,” a spokesperson told The Verge. “Unsurprisingly, the claims she is making validate her agenda and ignore the processes we have in place to ensure Facebook remains a platform to give people a voice, regardless of their political ideology.”)
  (Update 3: Project Veritas has included captions on original images in this article to avoid reader confusion.)
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  (San Francisco) Project Veritas has obtained and published documents and presentation materials from a former Facebook insider. This information describes how Facebook engineers plan and go about policing political speech. Screenshots from a Facebook workstation show the specific technical actions taken against political figures, as well as “[e]xisting strategies” taken to combat political speech.
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  (Other brave individuals who feel compelled to expose wrongdoing they witness can contact Project Veritas here.)
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  Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe said that to expose dishonesty and censorship in big tech companies, he will be relying upon more insiders, informants and leakers in the future:
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  “Our future depends on those who are willing to give up everything for what they believe.”
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