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'Weaponized' Facebook Fails to Protect Civil Rights, Audit Says

from NBC News

'Weaponized' Facebook Fails to Protect Civil Rights, Audit Says NBC News Facebook Inc. has not done enough to protect users from discrimination, falsehoods and incitement to violence, an external civil rights audit found on Wednesday, adding to pressure on the company in the midst of an advertiser boycott. The audit report, which Facebook commissioned two years ago, pointed to what the authors described as a series of harmful decisions, including a “terrible precedent” not to intervene in posts in recent weeks by President Donald Trump, which could allow the platform to be “weaponized to suppress voting”. READ MORE

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