Thousands of posts around January 6 riots go missing from Facebook transparency tool

[Nevilledog]

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Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D
@RVAwonk
Wow. Tens of thousands of Facebook posts from the days before and after the Capitol riot have gone missing from FB’s transparency tool Crowdtangle.

Thousands of posts around January 6 riots go missing from Facebook transparency tool
The social media company said it was a technical error, and has been fixed, but tens of thousands of posts are still missing.
politico.eu
4:21 PM · Aug 31, 2021

https://www.politico.eu/article/facebook-crowdtangle-data-january-6-capitol-hill-riots-transparency/


Scores of Facebook posts from the days before and after the January 6 Capitol Hill riots in Washington are missing.

The posts disappeared from Crowdtangle, a tool owned by Facebook that allows researchers to track what people are saying on the platform, according to academics from New York University and Université Grenoble Alpes.

The lost posts — everything from innocuous personal updates to potential incitement to violence to mainstream news articles — have been unavailable within Facebook's transparency system since at least May, 2021. The company told POLITICO that they were accidentally removed from Crowdtangle because of a limit on how Facebook allows data to be accessed via its technical transparency tools. It said that the error had now been fixed.

Facebook did not address the sizeable gap in its Crowdtangle data publicly until contacted by POLITICO, despite ongoing pressure from policymakers about the company's role in helping spread messages, posts and videos about the violent insurrection, which killed five people. On Friday, U.S. lawmakers ordered the company to hand over reams of internal documents and data linked to the riots, including details on how misinformation, which targeted the U.S. presidential election, had spread.

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[cadoman]

1. that is hard to believe -- I've found it extremely difficult to delete anything from FB

Always seems like ten other people retain a copy of it and FB seems to hold onto it forever in so many ways.

So what is the deal with FB's leadership and what are their broader motivations?

[yardwork]

11. There's a recent article in Mother Jones about FB that is sobering.

They deliberately built their algorithm to promote right wing sites.

[RockRaven]

2. Cover up demonstrating consciousness of their role/guilt?

[2naSalit]

5. Probably.

I wouldn't trust them with anything.

[yardwork]

9. FaceBook removed these posts.

[RockRaven]

16. That's my point.

It is where they removed them from which is the issue.

[yardwork]

22. Right.

[msongs]

3. people want facebook to stop posting certain stuff...so they did nt

[Frasier Balzov]

4. Maybe they were advised that Section 230 might not shield them.

[crickets]

6. Would this be obstruction by any chance?

No way this is accidental, and the reasons for it happening are obvious.

[uponit7771]

15. +1

[Cha]

18. Great Point.. Haul FB CEO in for

OBSTRUCTION!

[iemanja]

7. "accidentally removed"

likely story.

[yardwork]

8. They're stored with Nixon's missing tapes.

[dalton99a]

10. Sometimes Facebook forgets

[IcyPeas]

12. Just to add...

The top-performing link posts by U.S. Facebook pages in the last 24 hours are from:

1. Ben Shapiro
2. Breitbart
3. Dinesh D'Souza
4. Franklin Graham
5. TreeHugger
6. Fox News
7. Santa Barbara Independent
8. Fox News
9. Breitbart
10. USA Patriots for Donald Trump

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[Cha]

20. Rt TY IcyPeas! Correction on #10..

USA Traitors for the Treasonous Psycho

FB is FULL of SHITE.. SHAME ON Zuckerberg!

ETA Somebody should do an UPDATED movie on him someday.. how he went Traitor to America.

[bahboo]

13. uh huh....

[spanone]

14. Missing, my ass.

[uponit7771]

17. "...It said that the error had now been fixed...." as in they put the post back ?!

[Botany]

21. 2016 Trump's campaign digital manager Theresa Hong, "Without Facebook we wouldn't have won."

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Facebook is evil.