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What Facebook Knew Before Congress Asked: 20 2021 internal documents showed company knew about vaccine misinformation spread and delayed action
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET On August 19, 2021, a Facebook data scientist wrote in an internal memo that the company’s algorithms were amplifying vaccine misinformation at a rat…
What Facebook Knew Before Congress Asked: 19 2021 internal research showed Facebook aware its platforms were used to coordinate January 6 events
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET On December 21, 2020—two weeks before the U.S. Capitol riot—Facebook’s internal threat intelligence team identified a network of 250 accounts and pag…
What Facebook Knew Before Congress Asked: 18 2021 Frances Haugen leaked internal documents showing company knew about harm and prioritised growth
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In March 2019, Facebook researchers presented a 606-page internal report titled "The Facebook File: An Analysis of Facebook’s Impact on the 2018 U.S.…
What Facebook Knew Before Congress Asked: 17 2020 internal report found Facebook ads enabled housing discrimination in violation of Fair Housing
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In 2016, Facebook’s own internal audit found that its advertising tools allowed landlords to exclude users from seeing housing ads based on race, gen…
What Facebook Knew Before Congress Asked: 16 2020 internal documents showed company knew it treated high-profile users differently from its state
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In October 2019, Facebook’s internal content moderation guidelines explicitly instructed employees to treat high-profile users—politicians, celebriti…
What Facebook Knew Before Congress Asked: 15 2020 internal research showed Stop the Steal group growing rapidly action delayed for weeks
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET On October 21, 2020—two weeks before the U.S. presidential election—Facebook’s internal research team warned executives that the “Stop the Steal” mov…
What Facebook Knew Before Congress Asked: 14 2019 internal study found removing yourself from Facebook made you happier and less politically pola
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In March 2019, Facebook’s own researchers conducted a study in which they paid users to deactivate their accounts for four weeks. The results, docume…
What Facebook Knew Before Congress Asked: 13 2019 integrity team proposed changes to reduce political polarisation rejected because it reduced en
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In September 2019, Facebook’s Civic Integrity team proposed a series of changes to reduce political polarization on the platform—including demoting v…
What Facebook Knew Before Congress Asked: 12 2019 internal research showed Instagram was more harmful to teenage mental health than other platfor
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In March 2020, Facebook’s own researchers concluded that Instagram made body image issues worse for one in three teenage girls—and that the platform’…
What Facebook Knew Before Congress Asked: 11 2018 Myanmar genocide UN investigators said Facebook played determining role company had one Burmese
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In August 2018, the United Nations Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar concluded that Facebook had played a “determining role” …
What Facebook Knew Before Congress Asked: 10 2018 internal memo by VP Andrew Bosworth argued growth justified any harm including deaths
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET On June 18, 2016, Andrew Bosworth, then Facebook’s vice president of advertising and future chief technology officer, circulated an internal memo tit…
What Facebook Knew Before Congress Asked: 09 2018 Cambridge Analytica story broke Facebook had known about data harvesting since 2015
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In October 2015, a Facebook engineer filed an internal report warning that Cambridge Analytica’s parent company, SCL Group, was harvesting user data …
What Facebook Knew Before Congress Asked: 08 2017 internal research found 64 percent of people who joined extremist groups did so because Faceboo
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In 2016, Facebook’s internal research found that 64% of people who joined extremist groups on the platform did so because Facebook’s recommendation a…
What Facebook Knew Before Congress Asked: 07 2017 internal presentation showed Facebook aware its algorithms pushed users toward extremist conten
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In March 2017, a 60-slide internal Facebook presentation titled "Civic Engagement on Facebook" warned that the platform’s recommendation algorithms w…
What Facebook Knew Before Congress Asked: 06 2016 data scientists found Russian activity on platform before election leadership delayed action
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET On September 22, 2016—six weeks before the U.S. presidential election—Facebook’s security team sent an internal memo titled “Threat Intelligence: Rus…
What Facebook Knew Before Congress Asked: 05 2016 internal memo titled The Ugly acknowledged platform had been used to incite violence in multipl
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In March 2016, a Facebook internal memo titled "The Ugly" acknowledged that the platform’s recommendation algorithms had been used to incite ethnic v…
What Facebook Knew Before Congress Asked: 04 2015 internal report found Facebook was primary vector for fake news spread Zuckerberg dismissed con
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In August 2015, a 129-page internal Facebook report titled "Information Operations and Facebook" concluded that the platform was the "primary vector"…
What Facebook Knew Before Congress Asked: 03 2014 integrity team flagged that engagement algorithm amplified outrage recommendation ignored
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In March 2014, Facebook’s Integrity Team—tasked with identifying risks to the platform—delivered a report to senior leadership warning that the compa…
What Facebook Knew Before Congress Asked: 02 2013 internal study found Instagram made teenage girls feel worse about their bodies project shelved
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In March 2013, an internal Facebook research team completed a study titled "Teen Mental Health Deep Dive"—later leaked to The Wall Street Journal—whi…
What Facebook Knew Before Congress Asked: 01 2012 internal research showed emotional contagion Facebook could make users sad or happy by manipula
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In January 2012, Facebook’s Data Science team ran a secret experiment on 689,003 users, altering their News Feeds to suppress either positive or nega…