Facebook whistleblower to claim company contributed to Capitol attack

&gt;The violence and chaos of the attack sent shockwaves throughout the US, and the rest of the world, and saw scores of people injured and five die.<p>Stopped reading right there. I&#x27;m not even American and I know this has been debunked long time ago. There was only one person shot by capitol police who died as direct consequence of the storming. Some other people died because of self-inflicted body harm (overdosing for example) or entirely unrelated health issues.<p>This is propaganda.

Makes sense; you can&#x27;t take credit for the Arab Spring and then hold yourself harmless for the Capital insurrection.

Read memo PDF without Javascript: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;s3.documentcloud.org&#x2F;documents&#x2F;21075249&#x2F;facebook-memo.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;s3.documentcloud.org&#x2F;documents&#x2F;21075249&#x2F;facebook-mem...</a> ^1<p>&quot;Indeed, polarizing content and misinformation are also present on platforms that have no algorithmic ranking whatsoever, including private messaging apps like iMessage and WhatsApp.&quot;<p>If these services were truly private how would Facebook know what type of content peoples&#x27; messages contain.<p>1. NB There is an internal Sharepoint link in the PDF that apparently reveals the name of the Facebook employee who published this memo.

Every time we hear about how Facebook didn’t do enough to shut down this or that kind of speech on their platform, where that speech was legal, it should be recognized as smuggling in the basic assumption that it is perfectly ok we have a centralized company (and in Facebook’s case, an individual) with the power to influence global discourse to the degree Facebook does.

Did Bic contribute to the Unabomber&#x27;s reign of terror because he used one of their pens to write his manifesto?

What are the names of the five people listed as having been killed? One is well know, unsure about these other four.