The employees at Facebook were under siege by a mob in the hours after the Capitol attack. There were reports of abusive content. One employee put it in an internal forum, that many of the flagged posts were called for violence, or otherwise voiced support for the protests.
Employees began to accuse the company of fomenting the insurrection after Facebook's CTO called on his staff to hang in there. We shouldn't be surprised that the fire is out of control because we have been fueling it for a long time.
Employees are tired of thought and prayers from leadership.
The Facebook Papers offer an unprecedented look inside the most powerful social media company in the world. Hundreds of journalists obtained the records after they were given to Congress by a Facebook product manager-turned-whistleblower. In October 2021, he testified before Congress about the harms of Facebook.
“We’ve been fueling this fire for a long time and we shouldn’t be surprised it’s now out of control.”For the first time, Gizmodo is publishing 28 of the documents previously only shared with Congress and the media, as part of an ongoing project to make these once-confidential records accessible to the general public. We have undertaken this project to help inform the public about Facebook's role in a wide range of controversies, as well as to provide researchers with access to materials that we hope will advance general knowledge of social media. Less than two weeks after Donald Trump's mob attacked the Capitol, the results of a poll commissioned by Facebook itself showed that a majority of Americans believed Facebook at least partly responsible for the events.
The internal analysis of the many groups that Facebook knew to be prolific sources of both voter suppression efforts and hate speech targeting its most marginalized users will be revealed in the documents. The records show that the company was aware of the growing fears among users of being exposed to election-related falsehoods. The papers show that the account of President Trump was responsible for a surge in reports of violations of its rules.
Today's release is the first in a series of posts from Gizmodo that will be published with legal and academic partners. Our goal is to minimize any costs to individuals, privacy and any furtherance of harms, while ensuring the responsible disclosure of the greatest amount of information in the public interest. You can read more about our methodology here.
Future releases will be added to this page, a directory, that will eventually offer our readers links to all of the leaked internal documents we have published.
The Jan. 6 Integrity Product Operations Center (IPOC), a working group formed after the 2020 election, is responsible for investigating and mitigating threats that surfaced on- platform in its aftermath.
An internal memo from Meta CTO Mike Schroepfer about how he is by the insurrection, followed by dozens of comments by employees who are equally.
The results of a platform-wide survey intended to gauge how Facebook users felt about the company's response to the insurrection should be.
There was a spike in users reporting content for being violent and inciting, along with a list of the top posts, users, and hashtags being reported. Some of the measures proposed internally to reduce the likelihood of this kind of content showing up on social media are described in Part 2.
Before the riot, an internal post from an Integrity team member linking out to a video explainer on violence on social media was common.
The document describes what the Task Force was responsible for over the course of the election, and offers reasons why work should be generalized outside of the election.
The document shows what the Task Force was responsible for.
There are some early ideas to address fake engagement and misinformation in the run-up to the election.
An internal study is trying to figure out where partisan pages get their huge follower counts.
Two documents detail research into how the average Facebook user feels about political content on their wall, including proposals for company actions to ease negative sentiment.
A document describing the results of a platform-wide survey asking thousands of Facebook users what the company can and should do about content related to voter suppression.
The results of an internal survey showing which election-related pages and people were flagged for extra protections against reporting using Facebook's internal program.
There is a proposal outlining ideas for how Meta can handle the claims about the covid-19 epidemic.
An internal proposal explains how the company might expand its definition of voter suppression.
A new method for uncovering which users are experiencing more outsized quantities of political hate speech has been proposed.
An internal document outlining a conceptual framework that could potentially be used to uncover voter disenfranchisement targeting at-risk groups across Meta's platforms.
The VP of Integrity at Meta, Guy Rosen, announced upcoming lockdown efforts in advance of the upcoming election.
The company failed to stop political groups from being recommended to users across the platform in the months prior to the 2020 election, so they wrote an internal progress report detailing how they would do so.
The company's crisis detection strategies evolved in advance of the 2020 election.
A document describing the newCivic Targeting Risk Scores used by the company to warn users of high risk for being targeted with disenfranchisement and political misinformation.
An announcement describing a new effort to do daily reviews of the most popular content across people's Feeds, Stories, Pages and more; an attempt to uncover what kinds of content are gaining traction across the platform in advance of the then-upcoming election.
A document describing the platform's rationale for not interfering with political publishers was recommended in feed until after the election.
A retrospective from a product manager about how they dealt with problematic Facebook Groups during the election.
There is an agenda.
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