Recommendations to join the qanon groups, within a week, carol smith s feed was filled with hate speech, and disinformation. that researcher published the story of that dummy account s journey in a 2019 internal report of facebook called carol s journey to qanon. but even after that was found and reported inside facebook by their own researchers, nothing happened. at least not a lot happened that we can tell, and that was not a stand alone incident. an incredibly similar thing happened with the dummy account in india this 2019. instead of a conservative mom being told to go full qanon, though, in this piece, the dummy account was a 21-year-old indian woman set up as a generic account set up without expressing much interest in anything, quickly flooded with quite disgusting, lurid, antimuslim hate speech and propaganda. the facebook researcher said the
Followed just a few other facebook accounts, including fox news and president trump, and that s it. just sort of a bare bones profile, and this fake account, this carol smith account never expressed any interest in conspiracy theories of any kind. but nevertheless it only took two days that facebook recommended that that person, care smith, should join groups dedicated to qanon, that democrats are a secret cabal of satan worshipping pedophiles and will be executed in a mass public execution at guantanamo, really, carol, so soon, and even though the researcher running the fake account did not engage with those groups, with those recommendations to join the qanon groups, within a week, carol smith s feed was filled with groups and pages that violated facebook s own rules because they were filled with hate speech and disinformation. that researcher published the story of that dummy account s journey in a 2019 internal report of facebook called