Mark Zuckerberg may be trying to rehab his image, but Facebook is still up to its old tricks this election cycle.
In a new video released by the O’Keefe Media Group, a Senior Software Engineer at Meta (Facebook’s parent company) is shown appearing to admit to an undercover journalist that they’re working to suppress anti-Kamala Harris content on their platform.
"Say your uncle in Ohio said something about Kamala Harris is unfit to be a president because she doesn't have a child, that kind of s–t is automatically demoted,” he told the reporter, elaborating that the individual wouldn’t be notified, and would only notice through a decline in their post engagement and impressions. As he examples, Meta has an “Integrity Team” responsible for controlling content through it’s “civic classifiers” system that “shadowbans” users for wrongthink.
When asked if he believes Meta has the ability to influence the outcome of an election, he replied in the affirmative.
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