For months, Nextdoor moderators have struggled with the challenge of addressing QAnon content on its neighborhood sites but after last week’s deadly attack on the Capitol, the pressure between moderators and the company’s policy team may have reached a breaking point.
Nextdoor moderators scramble to address QAnon after Capitol attack
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For months, Nextdoor moderators have struggled with the challenge of addressing QAnon content on its neighborhood sites but after last week’s deadly attack on the Capitol, the pressure between moderators and the company’s policy team may have reached a breaking point.
Moderators have been asking Nextdoor to impose a ban against QAnon content since at least October, according to forum screenshots obtained by
The Verge. Last week, Nextdoor moderators began pressuring the company directly in the National Leads Forum, a private forum for moderators on the site. In screenshots of forum posts, obtained by
jillian: fighting fake news, facebook will test a new community fact checking system. rob: the company has come under fire for how it handles false content. jillian: how will the program work? reporter: a new pilot program will allow part-time contracted workers to be called community reviewers and hopefully the effort is to speed up the process of getting this information off of facebook which they have been criticized for not getting misinformation off of the platform fast enough. how it will work, third-party contractors will corroborate, and potential misinformation. third-party fact checkers would
e-mails and the court filing says, quote, out of a sample of approximately 20% of clinton e-mails, the intelligence community reviewers have only recommended 305 documents, approximately 5.1% for referral for their agencies for consultation. so this filing is an update for a federal judge on review efforts in response to a freedom of information act lawsuit. basically these intelligence agencies will now have to determine whether or not there is classified information in these documents and whether or not these documents should be released to the public as part of this lawsuit. and hillary clinton, as we have heard, repeatedly has denied sending or receiving information marked as classified through her personal server. it s unknown at this point if any of the 305 flagged e-mails contain classified information but this does come at a time when the fbi s investigating the security of clinton s private server.
vegas, nevada, where clinton is right now and no vetting, to supporter, when it comes to the 2008 campaign. that s right. they are harkening back to obama 2008 and that popular face of no bedwetting. that s the message clinton supporters are, clinton s campaign is sending to her supporters today as they deal with these questions about her e-mail and as you point out, it comes as intelligence community reviewers have asked that some 300 e-mails go under review. secretary clinton continuing to say she never sent or received any e-mails marked classified, this comes as chuck grassley also sent a letter to clinton s attorney asking if he had the proper clearance to hold on to and house her e-mail thumb drive. david kendall hasn t responded