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Disinformation Nation: Social Media’s Role in Promoting Extremism and Misinformation (QFR Responses)

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Questioner: Jan Schakowsky

Narrative: Profits over SafetyHarm: Terrorism
Q. · Question

Jan Schakowsky

A. · Response

Respondent not recorded

QuestionSchakowsky asks how much ad revenue Facebook generated from QAnon before banning it, whether Facebook does financial modeling of user-loss risk when making content-moderation decisions about militarized social movements, and whether it will share that internal analysis.

ResponseFacebook does not provide a QAnon-specific ad-revenue figure or share any financial modeling/user-loss analysis, instead asserting broadly that there is "no incentive" to keep hateful content since users and advertisers don't want to see it.