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YouTube’s stronger election misinformation policies had a spillover effect on Twitter and Facebook, researchers say. | The New York Times
by Davey Alba
October 15, 2021
YouTube’s stricter policies against election misinformation was followed by sharp drops in the prevalence of false and misleading videos on…
There’s no evidence whistleblower Frances Haugen was planted by Facebook | Poynter
by Bill McCarthy
October 11, 2021
A viral image circulating on social media baselessly claimed that former Facebook employee Frances Haugen, who turned over troves of…
Frances Haugen says Facebook’s algorithms are dangerous. Here’s why. | MIT Technology Review
by Karen Hao
October 8, 2021
On Sunday night, the primary source for the Wall Street Journal’s Facebook Files, an investigative series based on internal Facebook documents,…
Facebook’s scandals and outage test users’ frenemy relationship | The Conversation
by Elizabeth Stoycheff
October 8, 2021
When Facebook was down for most of the day on Oct. 4, 2021, did you miss it, were you relieved…
Mark Zuckerberg hits back at Facebook whistleblower claims | The Guardian
by Dan Milmo
October 6, 2021
Mark Zuckerberg has hit back at the testimony of the Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen, saying her claims the company puts…
How the Facebook outage crippled businesses and communication around the world | Rest of World
by Vittoria Elliott
October 6, 2021
Estherina Bewintara, a 29-year-old mother and designer in Jakarta, normally processes orders for her online furniture shop once her baby…
Whistle-Blower Says Facebook ‘Chooses Profits Over Safety’ | The New York Times
by Ryan Mac and Cecilia Kang
October 5, 2021
John Tye, the founder of Whistleblower Aid, a legal nonprofit that represents people seeking to expose potential lawbreaking, was contacted…
How ‘losing friend to misinformation’ drove Facebook whistleblower | The Guardian
by Dan Milmo
October 4, 2021
Frances Haugen, the whistleblower behind a series of damaging revelations about Facebook, is adamant that she wants to help the…
Inside Facebook’s Push to Defend Its Image | The New York Times
by Ryan Mac and Sheera Frenkel
September 23, 2021
Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s chief executive, signed off last month on a new initiative code-named Project Amplify. The effort, which was…