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Facebook has repeatedly overridden fact-checker evaluations in its two biggest markets, India and the United States.

Facebook India:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-hate-speech-india-poli...

Facebook in the United States:

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/sensitive-claims-bias...

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I tried facebook today. It's garbage.

I only found ads, prostitution services, pages of kids that seemed inappropriate, rumours, fake news, x minute craft videos with medical misinformation, make up videos with toxic products, etc on my 15 minutes of usage.

Live streams of people similar to this: https://ibb.co/0yBqf1n

Facebook groups are full of living ads. Most pages recommended didn't have any activity this year.

Everything is turned on by default on the privacy settings page. It includes facial recognition, content analysis, phone number, birthday information, and whatever you shared on sign up (everything). That data is available for everyone else too by default and there is no way to make a profile completely private or hidden.

You do know that ... fb ads are served based on off site web history and cross domain activity right?

Because this reminds me of a comment I read by someone saying that Instagram only showed photos of scantily clad women, followed by noticing his account mostly followed scantily clad women

Those weren't ads. I separated them from the rest in my original post. I used a freshly wiped device with vpn.

All those things are against their policy and some of it is illegal so it shouldn't be on it with thousands of likes.

> fb ads are served based on off site web history and cross domain activity right

Good point. There should be more regulation on this.

It's probably related to the fact you were using a VPN. I.e., most people would use a vpn when looking for prostitutes and all the other unsavoury things you saw in your facebook ads.

For a while I was getting tons of ads for asian mail-order brides and porn featuring almost exclusively asian women. Nothing that I was interested in; I kept my browser pretty clean so I figured it was just background noise. Never considered that I was sharing wifi with my neighbors -- a white third generation canadian and a first generation chinese canadian. When they moved out and I got my own account with the same internet provider, those ads went away and I learned a lot more than I ever wanted to know about that guy

This is really an attack vector. Share wifi with them (let's assume this is easy with social engineering) sign up for fresh facebook and google accounts, look for any unsavory advertisements, blackmail.

Or the reverse: a prank app where you connect to the target's wifi & then it goes around browsing unsavory parts of the web and clicking on a bunch of tasteless ads so as to poison what ads are shown to the victim.

you can do this with google search autocomplete, and it's especially effective on corporate WiFi at revealing co-workers search interests

"Why is my..." "when do we..." "how to ask..." "How do I..." "how to tell if i got" "divorce attorneys <city>"

While this post may seem unsubstantial at best, my point is to never search for anything personal while connected to a shared wifi network - even if you're doing it from the privacy of your own device.

Can you name one specific example of a conservative media outlet spreading a demonstrably false story and not being penalised?

Breitbart. Plandemic. It was removed but no penalties were leveraged.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/facebook...

Removal of the advert seems to be a penalty to me.

Read the article. (Which by the way isn't about ads either)

This (no penalties) is false. Reread your linked article to learn more. Also

https://www.facebook.com/facebookmedia/blog/working-to-stop-...

If I were a Facebook employee with typical bay area California politics I'd just selectively apply my bias and be over zealous with the fact checking when I find something is being shared amongst folks who are being swayed to the Republican side

As long as I get to decide this, I can ensure that my bias controls the narrative to whatever extent I can

Recently I saw a story alleging mailboxes were being taken away in a conspiracy to manipulate the election. All the facts are true but they can be assembled to fit this kind of conspiratorial narrative, which is weak because tend of thousands of mailboxes are moved all the time.

You could rate this "unproven" if you were being consistent but it doesn't help Democrats so why would you?

As long as people are in charge of these things it's never going to be fair and they'll always have the power to influence swing voters.

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