Facebook says it fired a contractor who worked with right-wing sting group Project Veritas on a “stunt,” as the group today published screenshots of internal Facebook conversations.
The Veritas report includes 60 pages of documents and a related video, which features on-the-street confrontations with named Facebook employees. The documents, provided by a former Facebook contractor now employed by Veritas, include screenshots of Facebook employee discussions on moderation efforts, as well as an internal presentation discussing a racist troll campaign.
According to Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe, who narrates the video, Facebook’s practices for limiting harassment and hate speech are designed to hit right-wing users the hardest….
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