Facebook whistleblower to claim company contributed to Capitol attack (opens in new tab)

Says Published Jan. 11, 2021. Its part of the initial reporting on the event and full of wrong information even with the updated section that still says 5 people died because of it while it fact it was only one.

Brian Sicknick died of a stroke the day after the event. 2 men were charged for assaulting him no one was charged for causing his death.

The NYT post says he died of his injuries.

Ashli Babbitt was fatally shot by capitol police Michael Leroy Byrd.

Kevin Greeson suffered a heat attack at the rally before the capitol was even stormed. There is no sign he participated or was involved any illegal activities nor that his death was related to it. He was apparently very passionate about political events, he attended and celebrated Obama inauguration in 2009.

Rosanne Boyland died of an amphetamine overdose was apparently involved in a stampede like situation which the NYT post still says is the reason for her death.

Benjamin Philips died from coronary heart disease no sign that he was involved with rioting or any illegal activities.

The NYT post falsely reports that he died of a stroke.

The NYT post is outdated and should be marked as such but it represents information available from that time. However the parent article from The Guardian is from yesterday, no excuse there to spread long known false information. Its defensively intentional and therefore by definitely propaganda and not journalism.

And how would you define the months, literally months of BLM and etc protests in which many, many people participated in the burning of buildings, mass looting and other random destruction across a number of American cities before the Capitol uprising as you call it?

Yes the truth matters. Why is this even a question?

>Does it matter?

Yes it does, it makes the difference between journalism and propaganda. If you dont care about the truth I cant help you.

Facebook actually did the wrong thing during the arab spring : 1- login was not encrypted, so we got our accounts compromised 2- they blocked activist accounts, disabled pages and groups and censored content based on pro regime reports 3- when they got their shit together, they realized that most of us did not use our real identities on facebook so blocking every Tunisian user based on regime report was not going to cut it. So they had this smart identity verification idea where they would show you a picture where one of your friends was identified and ask you where he was. Genius. Too bad we actually identified people on stupid photos just to get their attention. So when you tried to login you were showed say a picture with two dogs and they asked you to identify one of your friends. Half the Tunisians were blocked out of facebook till they rolled back this feature.

> after the event

Or before.