This is a big get from @alexeheath. More than 110,000 government government officials and candidates were on a Facebook whitelist that prevented them from being factchecked — and subsequently have their reach reduced — for spreading misinformation. https://www.theinformation.com/articles/facebook-researchers-found-companys-political-whitelist-influenced-misinformation-spread">https://www.theinformation.com/articles/...

This begs further questions: What happens when one of those political or candidate accounts violates another FB rule, like those regarding QAnon or covid misinformation? There& #39;s now a Q supporting politician in the House. Is she on the list?

This is a mess.

Facebook has said it& #39;s committed to transparency. For the sake of transparency, I& #39;ve asked them to make that political official and candidate whitelist public. Will let you know what they say.

A Facebook spokesperson has declined to provide the whitelist.

That means there will continue to be 112,000+ *unknown* political official and candidate accounts that can spread misinformation with impunity.

Facebook& #39;s own rationale is that political speech should be "subject to public scrutiny."

If you truly believe that, why not disclose those political accounts that you& #39;ve whitelisted to spread misinformation so that the public and press can scrutinize them?