Hello, friends,This week, dozens of media outlets have published investigations providing fresh details about how Facebook continuously overlooked internal research and concerns about harms generated by its platform. This new effort, dubbed The Facebook Papers, enhances and expands upon The Wall Street Journal’s Facebook Files series using documents provided by whistleblower Frances Haugen.(If you’re having a hard time keeping up with The Facebook Papers articles, I stumbled on this extremely h…

This is an ongoing public Google Doc collecting all the stories published surrounding the Wall Street Journal’s “Facebook Files” project. Shortlink: https://bit.ly/fbdocstories

Facebook knows, in acute detail, that its platforms are riddled with flaws but hasn’t fixed them. That’s a key finding of a Journal series that launched this week, based on an array of internal company documents. Read all the stories here.

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It's another crossposted episode this week! Mike recently joined the Tech Policy Press podcast alongside Block Party founder Tracy Chou for a conversation about using middleware and interoperability to craft a new, less centralized online...

A former integrity worker on Facebook's internal "posting culture" and why it's easy to misread the Haugen leaks