Pro-Russia groups are gaming Facebook’s review process, and moderators are stuck in the middle.
2022, a group of Bulgarian activists from the nonprofit United Bulgaria For One Cause tried to enter the offices of Telus, a global outsourcing company that handles content moderation for Meta, in Bulgaria’s capital, Sofia., they came armed with printouts of posts and accounts they said had been removed from the platform, which they stuck to the office doors.
BOEC accuses Telus of blocking posts that criticize Russia and support Ukraine. Their protest came weeks after a local outlet, Bird.bg, published allegations—which Telus denies—that the outsourcing company was working with pro-Russian oligarchs to silence pro-Ukrainian sentiment on the platform. The website also posted the names and images of Telus employees on its Facebook page.
responding to claims of pro-Russian bias in its content moderation, calling the accusations “false” and saying “there is no evidence to support them.”the information space in Europe say that the truth is more complex. Russian propagandists and supporters of the Kremlin have become adept at abusing Meta’s moderation practices—which are less robust in non-English languages—by reporting content en masse to trigger reviews that could ultimately lead to its removal.
Trad, whose own Facebook account had once been suspended after being spuriously reported for hosting extremist content, says that pro-Russian groups will often organize on Telegram and choose which accounts or posts to report and get removed from Facebook. Some of these groups, according to Trad, operate from Russia, while others may be paid-for trolls from within Bulgaria, where labor is relatively cheap.
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