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    ‘Does Facebook reward outrage?’ What leaked papers show the company knew.

    Oct 29, 2021 5 minutes

    Facebook, the social media behemoth with more than 2.8 billion users worldwide, has been weathering storms of criticism ever since its founder Mark Zuckerberg began it as an online project connecting college students in 2004. 

    But the 17-year-old company newly rebranded as Meta – which also includes Instagram and WhatsApp, with their billions of global users – is now confronting an unprecedented level of scrutiny after a former Facebook employee secretly copied tens of thousands of pages of the company’s internal research. These appear to show the company has been well aware that its platforms contribute to a host of social ills, even as its profits reach new heights.

    This trove of private information, which has been dubbed the Facebook Papers, reveals how the company’s own studies found its platforms damage the well-being of

    What are the Facebook Papers?What do the Facebook Papers reveal?How does Facebook’s business model make such problems worse?

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