Snopes: Facebook Failed To Respond to Dire Emails Ahead of Capitol Riot

[TwilightZone]

Emails from a Snopes reporter alerting Facebook communications staffers to violent rhetoric on the platform largely went ignored ahead of the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol riot. New reporting links those specific warnings of future violence to acts that were carried out that day.

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A Snopes reporter sent this email to a Facebook spokesperson on Nov. 2:

We have just published a breaking story about QAnon activity that litters the private Alamo City Trump Train Facebook group...The group was used to organize efforts to follow, surround, and “block” (their word) a Biden-Harris bus in Texas last Friday.

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After hearing nothing in return, a follow-up message was sent to the company the next day. Facebook did not respond.

On Nov. 5, two months before the Capitol riot, we reported in a second story about the same Facebook group after finding disturbing and violent rhetoric. The messages hinted at future violent acts much like the siege on the Capitol.

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On Nov. 6, we reached out to Facebook for the final time, bolding one part of the email for emphasis:

This Alamo City Trump Train group has members who are discussing driving to battleground states where votes are being counted, and taking matters into their own hands. They also discussed how many members are also members in a San Antonio Trump Train group.

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Facebook never responded.

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We reached out to Facebook prior to publishing this story, but did not hear back by a specified deadline.

The Alamo City Trump Train Facebook group, with its history of QAnon content, was still online and active. (as of yesterday, 2/12/21)

Much more here:

https://www.snopes.com/news/2021/02/12/facebook-capitol-riot/

[SergeStorms]

1. Facebook.

I was a Facebook member for a little under 24 hours. I could see right away that it was going to be a problem. I didn't forsee the political quagmire it would become, but I could see there was little or no oversight, and that was enough for me. Facebook sucks ass.

[Celerity]

3. FB is shit, and so few of my friends in my age cohort (18 to 30, I am in the middle) use it much

It far more popular with older folk. I do not like what social is doing to human societies on a global platform. It is all too 'hive mind' for my tastes. The only platform I really use a lot and like is YouTube. I have a burner twitter account simply to view things, but Twitter is 90% cesspool, 10% useful. Instagram is boring AF. WhatsApp and Snapchat are meh. Tumblr and Pinterest BORING. TikTok can be amusing at times, but it is also, like Twitter, a cesspool far too often. Reddit is what you make of it. LinkedIn can go fuck themselves (bad interaction with them, all traces of my account have been wiped for a couple years).

September 26, 2006 - Facebook opened up membership to anyone 13 and up. That is a key date in modern human history.


Scary stat

ages 13–18 (in 2020)

less than 4% do not use social media daily in the US



Banner in Bangkok, observed on June 30, 2014, informing the Thai public that 'like' or 'share' activity on social media may land them in jail

[Progressive Jones]

6. I have 2 uses for FB. Promoting local bands in my area, and staying in touch with old friends.

I have friendships that go back 55 years. Many of us are spread around the World now.
FB is easier than a phone call just to say "Hello". We also share photos, etc.

[Celerity]

7. email or skype or whatsapp or snapchat

for

staying in touch with old friends.

I refuse to enable or enrich that fucker zuckerberg

he is one of the most dangerous humans in history

[Progressive Jones]

8. Ah, but meager as it may be vs. Zuckerturd, FB makes me and my clients money. I get ya, though. nt

[Celerity]

9. All good!

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

2. So, Zuckerberg is a fascist. All the money he has to free him from

any problem money can solve isn't enough for him? He's got to enable his fellow fascists to spread their poison and recruit more members.

He dresses it all up in fairy tales about "free speech" and "community," but the tragic truth is it's fascism he's ultimately promoting.

[BigmanPigman]

4. I hope the Dems bring him and the other

social media giants back into DC for some more questioning and hopefully some restructuring. They are a major factor in destroying our country from within.

[crickets]

5. Absolutely.

Something needs to be done about it. Dealing with the 'fake' news channels needs some attention as well.

[Hekate]

10. Zuckerberg is a savant with one talent, & it's made him rich beyond belief. Speculation here is also

...that he is “on the spectrum,” which may indeed explain his sense of otherness.

But I’m about to add one more thing to this armchair diagnosis: Zuck is another godsdamn sociopath, who will only respond to heavy governmental and legal pressure. And it is way past time to apply that pressure.

[BigmanPigman]

11. Yes, a very greedy sociopath.

A perfect match for tRump.