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
that violated facebook s own, rules because they were filled with hate speech and disinformation. that researcher publish the story of that dummy accounts journey in a 2019 internal report to, facebook called, carole s journey to qanon. 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. that was not a stand-alone incident. an incredibly similar thing happened with the dummy account set up an indian 2019, instead of a conservative mom being told to go full qanon though, in this, case the dummy account was a 21-year-old indian woman, set up as a generic account 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 the account, said quote, this test users news feed has become a near constant barrage of polarizing nationalists content,
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