Facebook shuts off critical feature — and free speech



Facebook shuts off critical feature — and free speech

Long ago, Germans took to burning books that presented ideas deemed subversive to Nazism’s fascist ideology. That was eighty years ago and, as the saying goes, ‘everything old is new again.’
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Both the Daily Caller and USA Todayhave run stories on how Facebook, the world’s largest social media website, has simply shut off a critical feature because Germans were seeing too much ‘right-wing’ information.

If the two cases — though separated by seven or eight decades — seem eerily familiar, there’s a good reason for it:

“Facebook users in Germany complained about seeing posts from far-right groups so often that the social media platform temporarily turned off a a feature that allows people to discover news stories, USA Today reports.

A group of activists have been using Facebook’s targeting features to push right-wing content to supporters of centrist Prime Minister Angela Merkel leading up to nation-wide elections Sunday, Sandro Gaycken, founder and director of the Digital Society Institute located in Berlin, Germany, told USA Today.

“It’s really strange because Facebook says this should be impossible because you are only supposed to get recommendations based on your own ‘friends,’ ‘groups’ and ‘likes.’ But everyone in Germany is getting these right-wing party recommendations,” Gaycken said.

“Even left-wing journalists” were seeing the unwanted posts, Gaycken said.

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