James O’Keefe says that a Meta engineer told a fake reporter with O’Keefe Media that Facebook takes down posts that are critical of Kamala Harris.
In the hidden camera interview, Meta senior engineer Jeevan Gyawali seemed to say that accounts that post anti-Kamala Harris posts can be “shadowbanned” while the posts themselves are downgraded.
In the highly edited video, Gyawali seemed to say, “Let’s say your uncle in Ohio posted something about Kamala Harris not being good enough to be president because she does not have a child. That kind of shit gets demoted right away.”
It looked like Gyawali also said that the person “wouldn’t be notified,” which is the same thing as a shadowban. The poster’s views and interaction would probably go down. He also seemed to talk about how Meta’s “Integrity Team” controls material with something called “civic classifiers,” which is a way to secretly ban users.
He said, “There is an integrity team. That team is pretty important, and they make all these classifiers.”
His later words were, “Facebook’s basic defense system now is… they’ve built something called civic classifiers—a big model that was trained with civic content, so anything that it finds to have civic content is like demoted.”
When asked to explain what “civic classifiers” meant, he said, “That means if anything has to do with political content, it is automatically not shown.”
Gyawali, who is also an undercover reporter, said, “There is a SWAT team that has been set up since April… just to work out all the ways the platform can be abused.”
BREAKING: Senior Meta Engineer Reveals Anti-Kamala Posts Are "Automatically Demoted,” Admits Shadowbanning Tactics
"Say your uncle in Ohio said something about Kamala Harris is unfit to be a president because she doesn't have a child, that kind of sh*t is automatically demoted,”… pic.twitter.com/4DSkvzvKmO
— James O'Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) October 16, 2024
Gyawali also seemed to say that Meta has the power to affect the 2024 election and that Facebook’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, supports that plan.
James O’Keefe said that the undercover reporter had set up a date with the engineer on the app Bumble. It remains to be seen if Gyawali’s claims were based on facts or if he was just making things up to impress a date who was interested in his job. O’Keefe says that when he called Gyawali to ask for a response, he said “ah, fuck” and then hung up.