The metric analyzes hashtags and search terms used across Facebook over the past five days to churn out a score that estimates the likelihood of potential real-world violence — and that scored climbed 45%, from 400 to 580, during election week, according to BuzzFeed News.
Employees' discussion of the terms that have been spiking in popularity recently, such as #DrainTheSwamp, #Trump2020, and #KeepAmericaGreat as well as QAnon affiliated hashtags, implied that Facebook has taken steps to suppress some potentially dangerous trends, but also that there are many gray area terms that don't explicitly call for violence but still could be correlated with real-world harm.
Facebook did not respond to a request for comment on this story, but a spokesperson told BuzzFeed News that Facebook is "staying vigilant in detecting content that could incite violence during this time of heightened uncertainty." to remove or limit the spread of content that violates its policies against election misinformation or inciting violence, but it hasn't always been able to catch violations before they go viral.
I hate Facebook cause every time I see it I see my father using it to see news and the news spread by media is all hat rate against 2 communities and religions instead I🙃 use Instagram WhatsApp which is owned by Facebook but better than Facebook
Dump Facebook like the NBA
You can bet they used that to advertise products like weapons and riot gear.
FB is biased as it Twitter most disappointing
That is so sad... Thank you FB for removing the Stop the Steal group. I am so saddened by trumps unorthodox behavior. He's ruined half the minds of this country.
There's The lil boy himself. Censorship big gun Zucker.. lol
So was that better or worse for ad sales?
Facebook itself is fascist and unfair. The double standards are the standards of this ugly boy.
You mean this week?
Interesting percentage there.
Why are they monitoring that for? 😲