Dani Lever

This is something Meta has been public about for years: we show less political content of 𝒂𝙡𝒍 kinds and 𝒂𝙡𝒍 viewpoints because users have told us they want to see less of it.

We believe teens <16 should be required to get their parents’ permission before downloading apps on their phone. Apple disagrees.

The removal of your Page was a precautionary measure due to indications of potential compromise, not due to any issues with the content you posted. We are actively working to secure the page and will restore it promptly once we ensure its safety. It’s possible you were not notified promptly while we were focused on securing your page, and we apologize for that.

This is not what happened. Mr. Dawkins’ account appears to have been compromised, or hacked, so we took action to secure the account and prevent wrong usage of the page. That step was taken on July 30th. His last post was on July 25th, before the Olympics even started, and was not even topical to boxing. This action had nothing to do with any content Mr. Dawkins posted, and we are in the process of restoring the page as soon as it is secured. While we were focused on securing the page, we regret that we weren’t able to communicate this to the account holder more promptly.

Biologist Richard Dawkins Says Facebook Nuked Account After Posting That Male Boxers Shouldn't Fight Women zerohedge.com/political/face…

This is not what happened. Mr. Dawkins’ account appears to have been compromised, or hacked, so we took action to secure the account and prevent wrong usage of the page. That step was taken on July 30th. His last post was on July 25th, before the Olympics even started, and was not even topical to boxing. This action had nothing to do with any content Mr. Dawkins posted, and we are in the process of restoring the page as soon as it is secured. While we were focused on securing the page, we regret that we weren’t able to communicate this to the account holder more promptly.

Richard Dawkins's Facebook account has been deleted after he posted that genetically male boxers should not fight women. Could anything sum up more perfectly the dire state of free speech today? dailysceptic.org/2024/08/10/ric…

This is not what happened. Dawkins’ account appears to have been compromised, or hacked, so we took action to secure the account and prevent wrong usage of the page. That step was taken on July 30th. His last post was on July 25th, before the Olympics even started, and was not even topical to boxing. This action had nothing to do with any content Mr. Dawkins posted, and we are in the process of restoring the page as soon as it is secured. While we were focused on securing the page, we regret that we weren’t able to communicate this to the account holder more promptly.

🚨🇬🇧FACEBOOK CENSORS RENOWNED UK BIOLOGIST FOR OPPOSING MALE ATHLETES IN WOMEN'S SPORTS @RichardDawkins : “My entire Facebook account has been deleted, seemingly (no reason given) because I tweeted that genetically male boxers such as Imane Khalif (XY undisputed) should not fight women in Olympics. Of course, my opinion is open to civilised argument. But outright censorship?” Source: X

Pretty standard operating procedure for Elon—fire, ready, aim — but this is not what happened. Dawkins’ account appears to have been compromised, or hacked, so we took action to secure the account and prevent wrong usage of the page. That step was taken on July 30th. His last post was on July 25th, before the Olympics even started, and was not even topical to boxing. This action had nothing to do with any content Mr. Dawkins posted, and we are in the process of restoring the page as soon as it is secured. While we were focused on securing the page, we regret that we weren’t able to communicate this to the account holder more promptly.

Mark's already been public about the fact that he's not endorsing either candidate, just as he hasn't in prior elections.

@Eric_Schmitt @Meta This was an error. This fact check was initially applied to a doctored photo showing the secret service agents smiling, and in some cases our systems incorrectly applied that fact check to the real photo. This has been fixed and we apologize for the mistake.

Here we go again. @Meta now supercharging its censorship game just in time for the election.

@reddit_lies This was an error. This fact check was initially applied to a doctored photo showing the secret service agents smiling, and in some cases our systems incorrectly applied that fact check to the real photo. This has been fixed and we apologize for the mistake.

Meta needs to be investigated over this.

@JackPosobiec This was an error. This fact check was initially applied to a doctored photo showing the secret service agents smiling, and in some cases our systems incorrectly applied that fact check to the real photo. This has been fixed and we apologize for the mistake.

BREAKING: Meta is now censoring actual photos of the Trump assassination attempt

@EndWokeness This was an error. This fact check was initially applied to a doctored photo showing the secret service agents smiling, and in some cases our systems incorrectly applied that fact check to the real photo. This has been fixed and we apologize for the mistake.

BREAKING: Facebook is now censoring the iconic image of Trump's defiant fist It's now flagged as MISINFORMATION

@libsoftiktok This was an error. This fact check was initially applied to a doctored photo showing the secret service agents smiling, and in some cases our systems incorrectly applied that fact check to the real photo. This has been fixed and we apologize for the mistake.

Mark Zuckerberg is interfering in our elections again. Blatantly. In our faces. He needs to be dragged in front of Congress to answer for this.

@DC_Draino This was an error. This fact check was initially applied to a doctored photo showing the secret service agents smiling, and in some cases our systems incorrectly applied that fact check to the real photo. This has been fixed and we apologize for the mistake.

Facebook and Instagram are now censoring Trump raising his fist after being shot There’s only 1 reason they’d do this: It’s the most powerful image of Trump in American history And it will define his 2024 campaign victory

This was an error. This fact check was initially applied to a doctored photo showing the secret service agents smiling, and in some cases our systems incorrectly applied that fact check to the real photo. This has been fixed and we apologize for the mistake.

@charliekirk11 Yes, this was an error. This fact check was initially applied to a doctored photo showing the secret service agents smiling, and in some cases our systems incorrectly applied that fact check to the real photo. This has been fixed and we apologize for the mistake.

UPDATE: This has been resolved. A "false positive."

Earlier today, a technical issue caused people to have difficulty accessing some of our services. We resolved the issue as quickly as possible for everyone who was impacted, and we apologize for any inconvenience.

We're aware people are having trouble accessing our services. We are working on this now.

Appreciate the clarification. To be clear, the impacted engineering roles you're referring to were one part of a larger team focused on misinfo. Now this team has been integrated into the broader content integrity team, which is substantially larger and focused on integrity work across the company. We absolutely remain committed to this work.

Clarification here: the majority of the team that was let go was specifically the misinformation engineering team (there are other misinfo roles at the company like ops and policy, so my previous wording was too broad) theverge.com/2023/4/20/2369…

From yesterday’s newsletter: The majority of the team responsible for combating misinformation across Facebook and Instagram was laid off this week theverge.com/2023/4/20/2369…

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