The Facebook Papers

October 20th 2022

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How Meta Became the Internet’s Biggest Hub of Covid-19 Misinformation

Meta had every opportunity to boost the fight against vaccine hesitancy. The Facebook Papers show how the social media company squandered each one.

Tech News Dell Cameron & Mack DeGeurin

June 16th 2022

How Meta Failed to Fight Against American Climate Denial

Facebook's own employees think its efforts combating misinformation on climate change are inadequate. Read the internal documents for yourself.

Tech News Dell Cameron & Shoshana Wodinsky & Mack DeGeurin

June 10th 2022

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.

Tech News Dell Cameron

May 16th 2022

Facebook Killed News Feed Fixes Over Fear of Conservative Backlash

Facebook said it did not "build and withhold any News Feed changes based on potential impact on any one political party.” Internal documents say otherwise.

Tech News Dell Cameron & Shoshana Wodinsky & Mack DeGeurin

May 3rd 2022

7 Things We Learned From the Facebook Papers About Jan. 6, Meta, and the News Feed

Here's a look at just a few of the first 1,000 previously confidential pages Gizmodo published this month.

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May 2nd 2022

Here’s What the Facebook Papers Say About the Ranking Algorithms That Control Your News Feed

Facebook employees knew that a computer-curated feed increased the time users spent on the social network—and that it led to unhealthy behaviors.

Tech News Dell Cameron & Shoshana Wodinsky & Mack DeGeurin

April 18th 2022

Read the Facebook Papers for Yourself

Hundreds of internal documents formed the basis of dozen of news stories. They have not been made public. Until now.

Tech News Dell Cameron & Shoshana Wodinsky & Mack DeGeurin & Thomas Germain

Here’s What the Facebook Papers Say About Donald Trump, the 2020 Election, and Jan. 6.

Gizmodo has reviewed, redacted, and published more than two dozen leaked Facebook documents, the first of hundreds to come.

Tech News Dell Cameron & Shoshana Wodinsky & Mack DeGeurin

November 22nd 2021

We’re Making the Facebook Papers Public. Here’s Why and How

Independent experts from NYU, UMass Amherst, Columbia, Marquette, and the ACLU are partnering with Gizmodo to responsibly publish this historic leak.

Tech News Dell Cameron & Shoshana Wodinsky & Andrew Couts

The Facebook Papers

How Meta Became the Internet’s Biggest Hub of Covid-19 Misinformation

How Meta Failed to Fight Against American Climate Denial

How the Facebook Papers Exposed Meta’s Moderation Disaster

Facebook Killed News Feed Fixes Over Fear of Conservative Backlash

7 Things We Learned From the Facebook Papers About Jan. 6, Meta, and the News Feed

Here’s What the Facebook Papers Say About the Ranking Algorithms That Control Your News Feed

Read the Facebook Papers for Yourself

Here’s What the Facebook Papers Say About Donald Trump, the 2020 Election, and Jan. 6.

We’re Making the Facebook Papers Public. Here’s Why and How

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