A fellow group member commented, Ill fight for whats right, this corruption has to be stopped immediately.
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Citizen Browserconsists of a paid nationwide panel of Facebook users who automatically send us data from their Facebook feeds.
the United Kingdom Democratic Socialist Movement.
(For a full list of groups and methodology, see our data onGitHub).
Facebook has not said how it defines a political group.
Over 75% of the groups the Markup identified were only recommended to one single person.
We need to stand up and push back.
A revolution is on the way.
Lets be ready when it happens.
We attempted to reach the administrator by email but did not receive a response.
The pledge followedcriticism from lawmakersand its own internalresearch findingthat the suggestions push people toward extremist groups.
In an earnings call on Jan. 27, Zuckerberg assured investors that this timereallyFacebook wouldpermanently stoprecommending political groups.
Its clear that we cannot trust these companies to honor their promises to users and self-regulate.
In January, our reporting found that 12 of the top 100 groups recommended to our panelists were political.
Facebook recommended the group to three Citizen web app panelists.
As of June 10, the group had 255 members.
I have the right to defend myself and others.
The group admins did not respond to requests for comment.
This article by Corin Faife and Alfred Ng wasoriginally published on The Markupand was republished under theCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivativeslicense.
