{"id":158360,"date":"2020-08-29T03:20:10","date_gmt":"2020-08-29T01:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/08\/29\/zuckerberg-blames-contractors-for-failing-to-remove-kenosha-militias-call-to-arms\/"},"modified":"2020-08-29T03:20:10","modified_gmt":"2020-08-29T01:20:10","slug":"zuckerberg-blames-contractors-for-failing-to-remove-kenosha-militias-call-to-arms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=158360","title":{"rendered":"Zuckerberg blames contractors for failing to remove Kenosha militia&#039;s &#039;call to arms&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook CEO points to \u2018operational mistake\u2019 by teams meant to bar organizations deemed dangerousMark Zuckerberg blamed an \u201coperational mistake\u201d by contractors for Facebook\u2019s failure to remove the \u201ccall to arms\u201d of a Kenosha, Wisconsin, militia prior to the shooting Tuesday night that left two people dead and another injured.The Kenosha Guard militia had established a Facebook page in June 2020 and this week used a Facebook event page to invite \u201cany patriots willing to take up arms and defend out [sic] City tonight from the evil thugs\u201d, referencing those protesting the police shooting of Jacob Blake. Facebook has admitted that both the page and the event should have been banned under the company\u2019s new policy addressing groups linked to violence, such as militias. The company nevertheless failed to remove the page or event despite multiple users who reported the content to Facebook, the Verge reported. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2020\/aug\/28\/facebook-militia-posts-kenosha-protests\" target=\"_blank\">Zuckerberg blames contractors for failing to remove Kenosha militia&#039;s &#039;call to arms&#039;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook CEO points to \u2018operational mistake\u2019 by teams meant to bar organizations deemed dangerousMark Zuckerberg blamed an \u201coperational mistake\u201d by contractors for Facebook\u2019s failure to remove the \u201ccall to arms\u201d of a Kenosha, Wisconsin, militia prior to the shooting Tuesday night that left two people dead and another injured.The Kenosha [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}