An anti-Facebook right-wing 'stunt' has shed light on its tactics for tackling targeted harassment

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An anti-Facebook right-wing 'stunt' has shed light on its tactics for tackling targeted harassment
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Leaked documents provide a fascinating glimpse into Facebook, even if they don't mean what Project Veritas claims.

, notably when it failed to snare a Washington Post reporter by posing as a sexual harassment victim of former GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore, and in 2010 leader James O'Keefe was convicted of a misdemeanor after pretending to be a telephone repairman to try and break into the phones of a former Senator.

"We fired this person a year ago for breaking multiple employment policies and using her contractor role at Facebook to perform a stunt for Project Veritas," the company said in a statement."Unsurprisingly, the claims she is making validate her agenda and ignore the processes we have in place to ensure Facebook remains a platform to give people a voice, regardless of their political ideology.

One potential tactic it outlines is putting suspected trolls in a so-called"Twilight Zone" and subtly messing with their ability to use Facebook. This includes things like logging them out every few minutes, randomly redirecting them to the homepage,"magically" making photos and comments fail to upload, and throttling their bandwidth. These methods add friction to users' experiences and making trolling less easy and enjoyable , without outright banning them.

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