Facebook Is Auto-Generating Militia Group Pages as Extremists Continue to Organize in Plain Sight
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Ahead of the election, anti-government militias are using Facebook to recruit, coordinate training, and promote ballot box stakeouts. Meta isn’t shutting their groups down and is even auto-generating pages.

Ahead of the election, anti-government militias are using Facebook to recruit, coordinate training, and promote ballot box stakeouts. Meta isn’t shutting their groups down and is even auto-generating pages.

  • Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    60·
    13 hours ago

    Sounds like the government should eat Meta’s lunch before extremists eat their’s. They won’t tho. They’ll let every tiny far right group smear shit over the white house again.

    • Benjaben@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      5 hours ago

      For real. The big tech companies are today basically approximating and exceeding what have before been exclusively state-level capabilities. Not all of those capabilities, of course, but enough that the writing’s on the wall. Meta, Google, Amazon (and others) - they truly see themselves as above “petty” things like governments. Just obstacles to work around.

      The question is what will we allow them to get away with, not how far will they try to take things. We should be clear on that.

    • atx_aquarian@lemmy.worldEnglish
      321·
      13 hours ago

      It’ll be just like 2020: react after the damage is done and pretend they weren’t complicit.

  • zephorah@lemm.eeEnglish
    27·
    13 hours ago

    I just read an article about a ballot box being lit on fire in a heavily blue locale. After my initial horror I thought why there as opposed to anywhere else blue? There’s a tight contest for the house rep in that district, a purple district.

    • Drusas@fedia.io
      17·
      11 hours ago

      It was Vancouver, Washington and Portland, Oregon. Heavily blue areas closely surrounded by heavily right areas.