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

QuestionCiting 2016 Facebook research finding 64% of people who joined extremist Facebook groups did so via Facebook's own recommendation tools, and Zuckerberg's earlier Senate-hearing non-answer ("I'm not familiar with that specific study"), Schakowsky asks whether he's now familiar with it and whether extremist-group recruitment via recommendations declined after policy changes.

ResponseFacebook characterizes the 64% statistic as tied to a narrower 2017 Germany-specific issue that was "addressed at the time," denies ever having "buried research," but does not directly state whether extremist-group recruitment via Facebook's recommendation tools declined since the policy changes, as specifically asked.