WHAT HAPPENED
1. From Wednesday via Saturday there was quite a lot of content material circulating which implied fraud within the election, at round 10% of all civic content material and 1-2% of all US VPVs. There was additionally a fringe of incitement to violence.
2. There have been dozens of staff monitoring this, and FB launched ~15 measures previous to the election, and one other ~15 within the days afterwards. Many of the measures made existings processes extra aggressive: e.g. by decreasing thresholds, by making penalties extra extreme, or increasing eligibility for current measures. Some measures had been qualitative: reclassifying sure forms of content material as violating, which had not been earlier than.
3. I’d guess these measures diminished prevalence of violating content material by no less than 2X. Nevertheless they’d collateral injury (eradicating and demoting non-violating content material), and the episode prompted noticeable resentment by Republican Fb customers who really feel they’re being unfairly focused.
