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Facebook Is Auto-Generating Militia Group Pages as Extremists Continue to Organize in Plain Sight. (www.wired.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by Dot@feddit.org to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Ahead of the election, anti-government militias are using Facebook to recruit, coordinate training, and promote ballot box stakeouts. Meta isn’t shutting their groups down and is even auto-generating pages.

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[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 84 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

Sounds like the government should eat Meta's lunch before extremists eat their's. They won't tho. They'll let every tiny far right group smear shit over the white house again.

[–] atx_aquarian@lemmy.world 40 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It'll be just like 2020: react after the damage is done and pretend they weren't complicit.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

Assuming that there are any non-fascists left to react...

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