Meta employees busted in undercover sting admit company censors, demotes pro-Trump, conservative posts: OMG report

Meta employees were recorded on hidden camera admitting that Facebook censors pro-Trump posts and disproportionately targets conservatives with "fact checks" over posts the tech giant claims are "misinformation." According to a report issued on Thursday by journalist James O'Keefe of OMG Media, three Meta employees, including a software engineer, data scientist, and machine learning engineer, believe that the company is biased toward Republicans.

Matthew Fowler, a Meta software engineer, told one of O'Keefe's honeypots on a fake date that when they see alleged pro-Trump disinformation "We'll investigative, and then it goes just up to another team to take [the post] down." He said the majority of the disinformation his team observes is from conservatives. Fowler clarified that Meta's disinformation investigations are dependent on mainstream media for their verification process, stating, "The news is going to do their job, and then based on what the outlets say...you have to trust that."


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