What Facebook Knew Before Congress Asked
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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…