Oh, wow. Wow especially since in Germany, Facebook has been forced, through fines, to hire many moderators to respond to hate speech. If this finding holds, imagine the effect around in places Facebook has been terribly understaffed and unresponsive for years—Burma, Sri Lanka...https://twitter.com/elipariser/status/1031983483151892480 …
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Agreed. This would also be a moment where the Mozilla or Microsoft toolbar data might be helpful, as they have been for natural experiments in the past.
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The framing in the NYT suggests that the mechanism is social norms, though that is beyond the evidence. It's also possible that bursts of promotion happen at times when people in wider AFD-connected networks are mobilizing more generally, activity that predates attacks
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IMO, Germany is a best-case scenario for Facebook. A government they could not ignore forced them to staff up and respond at a scale that, as far as I know, they've not done anywhere else. (Someone correct me if there is another country).