On how Facebook justifies itself:“Focusing on hate speech and other types of harmful content on social media is necessary and understandable, but it is worth remembering that the vast majority of those billions of conversations are positive,” the former UK deputy prime minister wrote.
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Heyer’s killer has been convicted and sent to prison, but how does Facebook evaluate its role in the event? Does the calculation change at all when you consider that just a few weeks before Charlottesville, I sent Facebook a spreadsheet with links to 175 neo-Nazi, white nationalist and neo-Confederate hate groups that were using its platform to recruit and organize? And that Facebook had declined to take any action against the vast majority of them until after Heyer’s murder, when it belatedly cleaned house?
How many sewing circles or bird watching groups or kickball teams using Facebook tools does it take to make up for that?
I wouldn't be surprised if Facebook some spreadsheet that, under some oblique term, defines the cost to them of a Nazi murder that they facilitated.