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

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Questioner: Jan Schakowsky

Harm: Hate speechHarm: Terrorism
Q. · Question

Jan Schakowsky

A. · Response

Respondent not recorded

QuestionSchakowsky asks whether white supremacist/racist hate content is inherently harder to moderate than COVID/vaccine misinformation, given Facebook touted success on the latter while the former "runs rampant."

ResponseFacebook does not directly answer whether hate content is "inherently more difficult" to police than health misinformation, instead citing general hate-speech enforcement statistics (97%+ pre-report detection, 0.07-0.08% prevalence in Q4 2020).