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
Members has aoc and others calling for expulsion. today is the day american patriots start taking down names and kicking ass. and carol s journey to qanon. new reporting on how it radicalized users and the new netflix collaboration with colin kaepernick and this american moment. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. multiple members of congress are intensifying calls for the expulsion of their colleagues. in the wake of a new report not yet confirmed which may shed new light on the way republicans in congress and staffers may have had an active role in planning the protests leading up to the january 6th insurrection. now before we get to that rolling stone report, which is
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 standalone incident. an incredibly similar thing happened with 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, very quickly being flooded with quite disgusting, quite lurid, anti-muslim hate speech and propaganda. the facebook researcher who built that account said, quote, the test feed s news feed is a constant barrage of misinformation, violence, and gore. again, just by following facebook s recommendations. now, in response to these test cases, facebook has pointed to
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