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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