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November 21, 2021
1. Washington Post: Facebook’s race-blind policies around hate speech came at the expense of Black users, new documents show
November 5, 2021
1. WSJ: Is Facebook Bad for You? It Is for About 360 Million Users, Company Surveys Suggest
November 4, 2021
1. The Information: Facebook Papers Show a Company Locked in Zuckerberg’s Stranglehold
2. Business Insider: Internal documents show Facebook's Meta-minded CTO, Andrew Bosworth, blaming hate-speech posts on 'demand' for such content
November 3, 2021
1. Protocol: Here’s what happened when Facebook stopped protecting users — on purpose
2. TIME: Why Some People See More Disturbing Content on Facebook Than Others, According to Leaked Documents
November 1, 2021
1. Gizmodo: Leaked 'Confidential' Facebook Doc Reveals Internal Rift Over Handling of Political Ads
October 30, 2021
1. Protocol: Facebook Papers: How the company grapples with its climate change deniers
October 29, 2021
1. USA Today: The Backstory: 17 news orgs teamed up to examine the Facebook Papers. We found struggles with sex trafficking, hate speech, misinformation.
October 28, 2021
1. WaPo: Facebook told the White House to focus on the ‘facts’ about vaccine misinformation. Internal documents show it wasn’t sharing key data.
2. Business Insider: India starts probe into Facebook’s algorithm, seeks info on moderation process
3. Business Insider: 'Increasingly gaslit': See the messages concerned Facebook employees wrote as they left the company
October 27, 2021
1. Gizmodo: How the 2019 Christchurch Massacre Changed Facebook Forever
2. Protocol: Facebook's hiring crisis: Engineers are turning down offers, internal docs show
3. WaPo: In Poland’s politics, a ‘social civil war’ brewed as Facebook rewarded online anger
4. WaPo: Former Facebook auditor says whistleblower’s claims have ‘revived’ civil rights concerns
5. WSJ: Federal Trade Commission Scrutinizing Facebook Disclosures ​​
6. Forbes: Facebook Can Be Toxic For Female Politicians, Company Documents Show
7. USA Today: Facebook Papers reveal company knew it profited from sex trafficking but took limited action to stop it
8. Gizmodo: Facebook Has No Clue How to Solve Its Image Problem, Leaked Doc Shows
October 26, 2021
1. Platformer: The Facebook Papers' missing piece
2. CNN: Facebook is having a tougher time managing vaccine misinformation than it is letting on, leaks suggest
3. Gizmodo: Hey, Kid, Wanna See Some Leaked Facebook Docs
4. Protocol: They left Facebook’s integrity team. Now they want the world to know how it works.
5. WSJ: Facebook Encounters Challenge in Bid to Hire a Prominent Democratic Lobbyist
6. WaPo: Five points for anger, one for a ‘like’: How Facebook’s formula fostered rage and misinformation
7. WaPo: The indisputable harm caused by Facebook
8. WaPo: The massive Facebook leak shows how investigative journalism is changing
9. WaPo: Facebook knew ads, microtargeting could be exploited by politicians. It accepted the risk.
10. NYT: Facebook Faces a Public Relations Crisis. What About a Legal One?
11. AP: Facebook froze as anti-vaccine comments swarmed users
12. CNN: Facebook has language blind spots around the world that allow hate speech to flourish
13. CNN: Facebook revelations add new momentum to efforts to rein in Big Tech
14. CNN: The big takeaways from the Facebook Papers
15. Bloomberg: Facebook’s Algorithms Increasingly in Sights of U.S. Lawmakers
October 25, 2021
1. Recode: Wall Street doesn’t care about the Facebook leaks. Mark Zuckerberg does.
2. The Verge: Facebook says it’s refocusing company on ‘serving young adults’
3. The Verge: Eight Things We Learned From the Facebook Papers
4. Politico: Facebook looking for its voice at a ‘watershed moment’
5. NPR: The Facebook Papers: What you need to know about the trove of insider documents
6. NPR: Ex-Facebook employee says company has known about disinformation problem for years
7. FOX Business: Zuckerberg slams Facebook Papers, defends company's record
8. FT: Facebook ‘retooling’ efforts to prioritise younger users
9. NBC News: Facebook reports $9 billion profit on day documents highlight internal anger
10. NBC News: Facebook whistleblower 'shocked' by company’s investment in metaverse
11. CNN: CEO Mark Zuckerberg responds to the massive Facebook document dump
12. Protocol: It’s Frances Haugen’s world. We’re all just living in it.
13. Big Technology: Facebook Removed The News Feed Algorithm In An Experiment. Then It Gave Up.
14. WSJ: Facebook Posts Slower Sales Growth With Apple Privacy Policy
15. WSJ: ​​Facebook Whistleblower Frances Haugen Calls for New Tech Laws in Europe
16. WaPo: The case against Mark Zuckerberg: Insiders say Facebook’s CEO chose growth over safety
17. WaPo: A whistleblower’s power: Key takeaways from the Facebook Papers
18. CNN: The Facebook Papers may be the biggest crisis in the company's history
19. CNN: Facebook has known it has a human trafficking problem for years. It still hasn't fully fixed it
20. CNN: Facebook knew it was being used to incite violence in Ethiopia. It did little to stop the spread, documents show
21. CNN: Not stopping 'Stop the Steal:' Facebook Papers paint damning picture of company's role in insurrection
22. LeMonde: Facebook Files: outside the United States, the weaknesses of moderation in dozens of languages
23. LeMonde: On Facebook, the fiasco of moderation in Arabic
24. LeMonde: In the Facebook control tower during the assault on the Capitol
25. Bloomberg: Facebook, Alarmed by Teen Usage Drop, Left Investors in the Dark
26. Bloomberg: The Facebook Papers: Social Network Shaken by Content, User Woe
27. Bloomberg: Facebook Privately Worried About Hate Speech Spawning Violence
28. Bloomberg: Facebook Hobbled Team Tasked With Stemming Harmful Content
29. Bloomberg: Facebook Staff Say Core Products Make Misinformation Worse
30. Bloomberg: Facebook Keeps Its Fans on Wall Street Despite Deepening Selloff
31. AP: Facebook's language gap weaken screening of hate, terrorism
32. AP: Explainer: Just what are 'The Facebook Papers,' anyway?
33. AP: People or profit? Facebook papers shows deep conflict within
34. AP: Facebook dithered in curbing divisive user content in India
35. AP: Apple once threatened Facebook ban over Mideast maid abuse
36. Reuters: Facebook knew about, failed to police, abusive content globally - documents
37. Politico: Facebook documents offer a treasure trove for Washington’s antitrust war
38. Politico: ‘This is NOT normal’: Facebook employees vent their anguish
39. Politico: Inside Facebook’s struggle to contain insurrectionists’ posts
40. Politico: How Facebook users wield multiple accounts to spread toxic politics
41. Politico: Facebook's 'fatal flaw': Staff spar over the sway of their lobbyists
42. Politico: Facebook did little to moderate posts in the world’s most violent countries
43. NYT: Facebook Wrestles With the Features It Used to Define Social Networking
44. NYT: The Facebook Papers and their fallout.
45. NBC News: The Facebook Papers: Documents reveal internal fury and dissent over site’s policies
46. NBC News/Today: Internal Facebook documents reveal more red flags about misinformation on site
47. CBS News: Liberals to "Moscow Mitch," conservatives to QAnon: Facebook researchers saw how its algorithms led to misinformation
48. USA Today: Facebook papers: What we know about how misinformation and extremism spread from whistleblower
49. USA Today: Facebook says it’s winning the fight against hate speech targeting Black Americans. Its own research says otherwise.
50. Financial Times: Employees pleaded with Facebook to stop letting politicians bend rules
51. Financial Times: Facebook bungled efforts to curb explosion of hate speech ahead of Capitol attack
52. Financial Times: Facebook’s demons will follow it into the metaverse
53. Financial Times: Facebook confronts growth problems as number of young users in US declines
54. Financial Times: Four revelations from the Facebook Papers
55. The Atlantic: 'History Will Not Judge Us Kindly'
56. The Atlantic: What Happened When Facebook Became Boomerbook
57. The Atlantic: How Facebook Failed the World
58. Wired: Facebook Failed the People Who Tried to Improve It
59. Wired: Facebook Is Everywhere; Its Moderation Is Nowhere Close
60. Wired: How to Fix Facebook, According to Facebook Employees
61. Wired: Inside the Facebook Papers
62. Suddeutsche Zeitung: Inside view of a global corporation
63. Suddeutsche Zeitung: This is in the "Facebook Files"
64. The Verge: The Tier List: How Facebook Decides Which Countries Need Protection
65. The Verge: Facebook's Lost Generation
October 24, 2021
1. WaPo: How Facebook Neglected the Rest of the World
2. WSJ: Facebook’s Internal Chat Boards Show Politics Often at Center of Decision Making
3. USA Today: The story of Carol and Karen: Two experimental Facebook accounts show how the company helped divide America
4. NYT: Inside the Big Facebook Leak
October 23, 2021
1. WSJ: Facebook Services Are Used to Spread Religious Hatred in India, Internal Documents Show
2. NYT: In India, Facebook Grapples With an Amplified Version of Its Problems
3. AP: Amid the Capitol riot, Facebook faced its own insurrection
4. AP: Facebook dithered in curbing divisive user content in India
5. Guardian: Frances Haugen: ‘I never wanted to be a whistleblower. But lives were in danger’
6. Telegraph: Bickert Op-Ed - Facebook wants new rules for the internet, but we aren’t waiting
October 22, 2021
1. Fox Business: New Facebook whistleblower claims execs downplayed Russian interference, hate speech: report
2. Washington Post: Inside Facebook, Jan. 6 violence fueled