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How the Facebook Papers Exposed Meta’s Moderation Disaster

From hate speech to misinformation, Facebook's moderation often failed to meet the problems at hand, according to its own internal documents.
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In Gizmodo’s third release of documents from the Facebook Papers, we learned how decisions at Facebook over whether to improve a product can depend on how many conservatives in the press are likely to get pissed. We also learned that when Facebook claimed it wasn’t doing something, it was doing exactly that. Here’s a broader look at just a few of the things we’ve learned about Facebook—Meta if you’re nasty—over the last couple weeks thanks to whistleblower Frances Haugen.

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