Meta Official Says 2020 Election Interference Was ‘Not Enough’

Headline USA ^ | January 31, 2024 | Dmytro "Henry" Aleksandrov

[Red Badger]

A member of Meta’s oversight board said during a recent interview that the Big Tech company “had not done enough” to control users’ speech back in 2020, even though it did everything possible to radically change the outcome of the last presidential election and enforce its censorship tactics after that.

Board member Pamela San Martín claimed in a Wired interview that was published on Jan. 26, 2024, that as the tech platform enters 2024, “even though we’re addressing the problems that arose in prior elections as a starting point, it is not enough.”

“Between the U.S. election [in 2020] to the Brazilian election [in 2022], Meta had not done enough to address the potential misuse of its platforms through coordinated campaigns, people organizing or using bots on the platforms to convey a message to destabilize a country, to create a lack of trust or confidence on electoral processes,” she said.

However, as previous years showed, the Big Tech company was doing everything in its power to change the results of the 2020 election and shut up every dissenter by censoring the Hunter Biden laptop story, removing Donald Trump’s campaign ad, suspending his Facebook and Instagram accounts, and making sure that everyone who thought that the 2020 election was stolen wouldn’t be able to express his views, the Federalist reported.

Despite all of that, San Martín still thought that it wasn’t enough.

“Social media platforms need to learn from past mistakes to be able to address them better this year,” she said.

San Martín then listed other censorship techniques that Meta already tested out in “different countries” and plans to use in 2024. Among them are “working with electoral authorities, adding labels to posts that are related to elections, directing people to reliable information, prohibiting paid advertisement when it calls into question the legitimacy of elections and implementing WhatsApp forward limits.”

She then acknowledged “how [Meta’s] own algorithms, their newsfeeds, their recommendation systems, their political ads can play a part” in the “protection” of “electoral processes,” adding that she wants to see more of it, not less.

[Red Badger]

LIBERALS ALWAYS DOUBLE-DOWN ON STUPID.

ALWAYS.............................

[ComputerGuy]

At least she’s not bashful about it.

[blackdog]

Rewarding failure is how our institutions roll these days.

BTW, AI is nothing but the new Y2K scam giving tech companies and staff endless heaps of cash "To Implement Corporate and Government Strategies to Ready themselves" for the non-existent crisis.

[RideForever]

I found my dissenting message in FB that pointed out the US Constitution, Art IV, Sect 4, that was ‘overruled’ by the USSC recently, delayed by a week for one person so far.

[tired&retired]

They are stepping it up again.

I stopped using them as there are so many anti Trump posts and memes it’s obvious they are trying to influence the election.

[Regulator]

She’s not a “liberal”, she’s a Mexican supremacist trying to tear down American electoral integrity.

https://law.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/417165-e1677092932212-300x300.png

Nothing “liberal” about her. Just a twisted thug.

[TornadoAlley3]

Their motto is censorship for the right, allow the child porn

[OrioleFan]

I’ll probably get “fact” checked by some French company again...

[sauropod]

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[Vendome]

A member of Meta’s oversight board said during a recent interview that the Big Tech company “had not done enough” to control users’ speech back in 2020

spaseebah Comradess...

[Boomer]

It’s not a private company when it’s in wide use like it is.

They should be punished with a $500B fine or stop censoring. Election interference should come with a minimum 20 year prison sentence.

[Vendome]

https://oversightboard.com/meet-the-board/pamela-san-martin/

 

 

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Pamela San Martín

Former Electoral Councilor at the National Electoral Institute (INE) in Mexico

Mexico

 

Pamela San Martín is a lawyer from Mexico City who has dedicated her career to advancing human rights, freedom of expression and democratic institutions. Between 2014 and 2020, she served as one of 11 Electoral Councilors at Mexico’s National Electoral Institute — the highest position in the country’s electoral management body. There she worked on organizing peaceful elections and managing key issues of campaign regulation and freedom of speech and information. As Electoral Councilor, San Martín played a central role in developing policies to guarantee minority rights in democratic processes including trans and disability rights, and quotas for indigenous people. She has also sat on the editorial board of one of Mexico’s most widely circulated newspapers. Prior to her time at the Electoral Institute, San Martín worked at Mexico City’s Human Rights Commission for almost a decade. She is currently a consultant on elections, democracy, and human rights, particularly in countries facing polarization and violence, and has participated as an expert in international observation mission.

 

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The Oversight Board is a global body of experts that will review Meta’s most difficult and significant decisions related to content on Facebook and Instagram. It will make binding decisions on that content, which means Meta must implement them unless doing so could violate the law. The board will also be able to issue policy recommendations.

The board’s independent judgement is critical to its function. Both the board and its administration are funded by an independent trust and supported by an independent company that is separate from Meta. The board’s structure, responsibilities, purpose and relationship to Meta are outlined in the Oversight Board Charter. The board acts as a service provider to Meta.

[Red Badger]

[falcon99]

Why is this admitted election interference not being investigated by the DOJ and FBI? Oh wait, my bad. Of course the DOJ and FBI are being run by corrupt democrats.

[Fedora]

Pamela San Martín: foreign national from Mexico, sits on Meta’s Oversight Board with Khaled Mansour, pro-PLO Egyptian journalist and coauthor of Phyllis Bennis from the Institute for Policy Studies.

[Fedora]

https://www.oversightboard.com/meet-the-board/

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Principal, Lady Margaret Hall Oxford
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Helle Thorning-Schmidt
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Former Prime Minister, Denmark
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Founder, Digital Rights Foundation
Pakistan
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Sudhir Krishnaswamy
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Executive Director, Internet Sans Frontières
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Evelyn Aswad
Professor and Chair, University of Oklahoma College of Law
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Kenji Yoshino
Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Constitutional Law and Faculty Director of the Meltzer Center for Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging
United States of America
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[montag813]

Board member Pamela San Martín claimed “even though we’re addressing the problems that arose in prior elections as a starting point, it is not enough.”

I think she should be replaced with Pamela Sue Martin.

[logi_cal869]

I’d like to help her with a baseball bat...