New York CNN Business — This week the Wall Street Journal released a series of scathing articles about Facebook, citing leaked internal documents that detail in remarkably frank terms how the company is not only well aware of its platforms’ negative effects on users but also how it has repeatedly …
'The Facebook Files:' Investigation Shows Company Knew Harm Platform Caused
Leaked documents to The Wall Street Journal reveal the social media giant was not only aware of the negative effects its platform had on users, but that it failed to properly address them. The investigation found that Facebook knew Instagram was harmful to teen girls, it allowed human and drug trafficking to persist, and also failed to prevent its own platform from undermining COVID-19 vaccination efforts supported by CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Here's everything you need to know.
Anti-vaccine activists flooded Facebook to sow doubt about the COVID-19 vaccines, overwhelming efforts to stop them, even as the company told the world that it was not responsible for vaccine hesitancy, a new report from the Wall Street Journal has found. Of about 150,000 users posting in Facebook …
Facebook's impact on a planet where nearly half the people alive use its product has reportedly become a point of contention among the company's leadership. A meeting of Facebook leaders in early September focused on "whether Facebook has gotten too big," and that the general tone was, "We created …
Social media firm reportedly kept own research secret that suggests app worsens body image issues
"These people can violate our standards without any consequences." Facebook had a problem on its hands. People were making posts that got caught in …
Facebook's artificial intelligence-powered content moderators can't read some languages used on the platform, raising concerns about how the company is policing content in countries that speak languages other than English, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. The paper viewed company documents …
Facebook has failed to fix systems that allow human trafficking organizations and drug cartels to repeat the same behavior, according to reporting …
Analysis and Fallout from the Revelations
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A Wall Street Journal investigation Facebook Inc. knows, in acute detail, that its platforms are riddled with flaws that cause harm, often in ways only the company fully understands. That is the central finding of a Wall Street Journal series, based on a review of internal Facebook documents, …