'O’Keefe Media releases second Facebook sting.'

<https://x.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/1847036642005032967>

'BREAKING: Second Round of Meta Engineers Reveal Censorship Practices:
“Pro-Trump” Posts “Go Just Up to Another Team to Take It Down"

“Usually the disinformation we saw was pro-Trump... We'll investigate,
and then it goes just up to another team to take it [the post] down,”
admits Matthew Fowler (@mattsfowler), a Software Engineering Manager at
@Meta
, during an undercover date with an O’Keefe Media Group journalist.
Fowler emphasized that Meta’s investigations often rely on mainstream
media for verification, stating, “The news is going to do their job, and
then based on what the outlets say… you have to trust that.”

Plamen Dzhelepov (@PlamenDzhelepov), a Machine Learning Engineer at
Meta, agreed, “Meta has the right to suppress anything,” acknowledging
the company’s political bias by noting, “they're biased if they do that
against the Republicans.” Dzhelepov detailed Meta’s censorship
capabilities, confirming they target “crazy conspiracy right-wing
people,” actively demoting their opinions.

Michael Zoorob (@MichaelZoorob), a Data Scientist at Meta, described the
fact-checking process, stating, “the fundamental problem is that... '
the vast majority of what fact-checkers label as false is shared by
conservatives,” admitting that any policy demoting content labeled false
by fact-checkers disproportionately affects conservatives.

When addressing misinformation, Dzhelepov explained Meta's approach:
“it's either censored or it says a [community note] thing, where it
says, 'this is disinformation, it's probably fake' under the post,"
adding that Meta “actually suppresses certain voices.” Zoorob also
recalled how Meta had downranked the Hunter Biden laptop story upon the
FBI's warning, stating, “We just downranked it,” making the post less
visible in users' feeds.”