Facebook papers reveal turmoil within company
Frances Haugen shared some documents with the Wall Street Journal, sharing that Facebook is aware of problems with its platforms, including the spreading of misinformation.
Book Review: George Melloan’s ‘Bogus Science’
It was fairly early in Barack Obama’s first presidential term. Unemployment was still abnormally high, yet Obama was on the road lobbying for his adopted city of Chicago as host of the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Facebook is nearing a reputational point of no return
Disaster struck the world’s biggest social network on October 4th when Facebook and its sister apps were knocked offline for six hours. It was one of the less embarrassing moments of the company’s week. The next day a whistleblower, Frances Haugen, told Congress of all manner of wickedness at the firm, from promoting eating disorders to endangering democracy. Some wondered whether the world would be a better place if the outage were permanent.
Facebook falls 4% after whistleblower says social media company gives hateful content more reach
Facebook stock fell as much as 4% on Monday after a whistleblower alleged that the company does little to stop the spread of hateful content on its platform. Former Facebook product manager Frances Haugen leaked internal documents to several news outlets this year and told “60 Minutes” on Sunday that choices made by the company’s management team consistently give polarizing, hateful content more reach and distribution than it should.