Prior to Sunday’s broadcast of CBS’s 60 Minutes, a Facebook executive told CNN that a whistleblower’s claims the company contributed to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot was “ludicrous.” After the story aired, Facebook issued a detailed response to that as other allegations.
On the claim that safety measures were put in place, and then rolled back, and made Facebook less safe in the lead up to January 6:
“In phasing in and then adjusting additional emergency measures before, during and after the election, we took into account specific on-platforms signals and information from our ongoing, regular engagement with law enforcement. When those signals changed, so did the measures.” Additional statement on Facebook's response to dangerous organizations before the January 6 Capitol insurrection:
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