Will Facebook’s scrutiny of private groups backfire?
https://tech.newstatesman.com/business/facebook-private-groups
Facebook recently unveiled “proactive” scrutiny measures and administrator tools for its closed-community private groups.
It’s about time, according to many digital industry think tanks that have long considered the laissez-faire-style privacy afforded to Facebook’s private groups a facilitating factor in the spread of online hate, extremism, conspiracy theories and misinformation.