we begin this hour with the disinformation spreading on social media and how it threatens our democracy. let s start with carol who joined facebook in 2019. she listed a few of her interests, her christian faith, and motherhood. she followed fox news and donald trump. nbc then reports, quote, though smith had never expressed interest in conspiracy theories, in just two days facebook was recommending she join groups dedicated to qanon. smith didn t follow the recommended qanon groups, but whatever algorithm facebook was using to determine how she should engage with the platform pushed ahead just the same. within one week, smith s feed was full of groups and pages that had violated facebook s own rules, including those against hate speech and disinformation. now, carol isn t a real person. in fact, the account was created by a facebook researcher studying the platform s role in polarizing its users through disinformation. tonight we re learning just how widespread disinformatio
let s start with carol who joined facebook in 2019. she listed a few of her interests, her christian faith, and motherhood. she followed fox news and donald trump. nbc then reports, quote, though smith had never expressed interest in conspiracy theories, in just two days facebook was recommending she join groups dedicated to qanon. smith didn t follow the recommended qanon groups, but whatever algorithm facebook was using to determine how she should engage with the platform pushed ahead just the same. within one week, smith s feed was full of groups and pages that had violated facebook s own rules, including those against hate speech and disinformation. now, carol isn t a real person. in fact, the account was created by a facebook researcher studying the platform s role in polarizing its users through disinformation. tonight we re learning just how widespread disinformation travels on facebook. new reporting from the new york times reveals a facebook data scientist warned c
this is cnn breaking news. it s a brand new hour, thanks for staying with us. i m victor blackwell. i m alisyn camerota. if you re wondering why your facebook or instagram page is not loading, you re not alone. the social media giant is facing major outages across multiple platforms today, and they still are not disclosing what s going on. here s what we know, though, is this is happening on a day that is really bad for facebook. we heard from a whistleblower last night, and she s accusing facebook of intentionally allowing hateful content and misinformation to spread on the platform in order to make more money. more on that in a moment. first let s bring in donie o sullivan, and focus on the outages. this is highly unusual, we are now going into hour four of this outage across facebook, instagram, and whatsapp, all of course owned by facebook. here is what facebook is saying in a statement. this is from a few hours ago. we are aware that some people are having troubl
Jason Crawford, a US citizen from Georgia, has won his legal battle with Facebook in a significant development. Crawford sued the IT company after being refused access to his account without a good explanation. He was granted $50,000 (about Rs 41 lakh) in damages.
Amplification and glorification of their videos, propaganda, using platforms like facebook, whatsapp, and instagram and others to show this imaginary world they were carving out was a place to abandon their own homes, fly to turkey and make their way to syria, and they could live in this islamic fantasy world where they can kill at will and take people as slaves. fast forward to today or to the run-up to the 2020 election. these people who ve been who have used facebook as sort of a tsunami of disinformation to surf wanted to be in the water anyway. so facebook itself is certainly not the payload of information that goes out and finds its way into the propagandistic target. it is the cruise missile. it is the weapon itself that hauls that disinformation and delivers it indirectly into the minds of individuals.