Senior vice president of product engineering Brian Hamman describes prepping for unusual results, multiple needles, and vote counting that stretched for days. “Essentially, any time after the election, we could be sending out a push notification calling the election and bringing massive traffic to our site.”
Plus: Unions keep fighting for parental leave, BBC journalists may no longer be allowed to attend marches, and “POC really flattens class experience, even amongst people who are nominally part of the same racial group.”
Twitter’s Jack Dorsey and other tech CEOs have been grilled by Congress on such issues. But Jeff Zucker and Rupert Murdoch haven’t explained how CNN and Fox News, which are both far more widely used for news, would deal with a contested election outcome.
Meanwhile, Republican Sen. Mike Lee says fact-checking is a form of censorship, and Wikipedia explains how it plans to fight Election Day misinformation.
Owen, Laura Hazard. "Two new studies show, again, that Facebook doesn’t censor conservatives." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 30 Oct. 2020. Web. 18 Apr. 2024.
APA
Owen, L. (2020, Oct. 30). Two new studies show, again, that Facebook doesn’t censor conservatives. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved April 18, 2024, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2020/10/two-new-studies-show-again-that-facebook-doesnt-censor-conservatives/
Chicago
Owen, Laura Hazard. "Two new studies show, again, that Facebook doesn’t censor conservatives." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified October 30, 2020. Accessed April 18, 2024. https://www.niemanlab.org/2020/10/two-new-studies-show-again-that-facebook-doesnt-censor-conservatives/.
Wikipedia
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