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It's Thursday, July 9th.

I'm Nila Boodoo.

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First, Facebook under fire is today's one big thing.

This week, Facebook failed its own civil rights audit. The social network has been used as a platform for

mass spread of misinformation, leading to voter suppression, harassment against

minority groups, and encouraging violence.

The report concluded Facebook's in action led to, I'm going to read a direct quote here,

a significant setback in civil rights.

Inafrid is the chief technology correspondent at Axios.

Once again, Facebook just sees the world so much differently than its critics.

To me, it's less about what the audit found and how differently Facebook and its critics view that same data.

Facebook sees it as a problem that they've made a lot of progress on and just need to keep

working at and its critics see a system that's still fundamentally broken.

Critics look at Facebook as a platform for voter suppression, for hate speech, for algorithmic bias. for

algorithmic bias for discrimination and Facebook sees a mostly good thing with a few problems.

So what do the critics want Facebook to do? There's a bunch of steps

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