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The Facebook Papers Show How Quickly Radicalization Can Happen Online

The NPR Politics Podcast

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Facebook Groups - What Are They Doing?

Li: There's a lot of stuff in these documents that kind of document how facebook groups, how much of a role they played in allowing the concept of the stop the steel movement. People were able to use these groups and basically grow them so quickly that facebook wasn't able to react before this idea had such a broad following. Li: Facebook spent years trying to make sure there was not a repeat of 20 16, that there wasn't foreign interference. But as you say, it was a game of wackamole, because new groups kept popping up, making some of these claims,. You know, same with calls for violence, all kinds of issues.

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