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A 'lobbyist who has to make the president happy' is part of Facebook's content moderation, employees complain: report
Unlike at Twitter and Google, lobbyists are involved with decisions about Facebook's content, which…
Bryan Metzger
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Mark Zuckerberg personally intervened to soften Alex Jones' Facebook ban, a report claims
Facebook's employees wanted the ban to extend to posts supporting or praising Alex Jones, but Zucke…
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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Facebook reportedly had evidence that its algorithms were dividing people, but top executives killed or weakened proposed solutions
Despite internal research finding that Facebook's platform encouraged polarization, Mark Zuckerberg…
Tyler Sonnemaker
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Meta's AI claimed the Trump assassination attempt didn't happen. The company is blaming 'hallucinations.'
Meta's AI chatbot said the Trump assassination attempt didn't happen, drawing ire from critics. The…
Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert,…
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Meta's AI apparently said the shooting at the Trump rally didn't happen. Here's what ChatGPT and Claude said.
Meta AI was slammed for its response to questions about the Trump assassination attempt. Here's wha…
Jordan Hart,Erin Snodgrass
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Sam Bankman-Fried might be eating a lot of rice, almonds, and Skittles drink mix if he wants to stay vegan in prison
The disgraced FTX founder could be sent to a prison with very limited vegan options, The Wall Stree…
Ella Hopkins
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I have spent entirely too much time thinking about Mark Zuckerberg's outfit at his birthday party
The Meta CEO switched outfits in his photos, and I was determined to figure out why.
Katie Notopoulos
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Business Insider's journalism has won distinguished awards such as the Pulitzer Prize, Scripps Howa…
Business Insider
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A new whistleblower reportedly claimed Facebook exempted right-wing outlet Breitbart from certain rules because it didn't want to 'start a fight with Steve Bannon'
Ex-Trump advisor Steve Bannon ran Breitbart News when Facebook defended "whitelisting" the outlet t…
Katie Canales
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Facebook killed a tool to fight anti-vaxx information because it disproportionately affected conservatives, report says
Employees took down the tool and after they were told it didn't meet Facebook's fairness standards,…
Bill Bostock
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A Facebook executive rallied support for Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination, a new book says
Joel Kaplan, Facebook's vice president of global public policy, played a key role in pushing for th…
Tyler Sonnemaker
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Facebook has bent its hate speech and misinformation policies around Trump since before he was president, report says
The Washington Post spoke to a dozen current and former employees and viewed previously unreported …
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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Facebook researchers wanted to block racist hate speech, but executives reportedly dismissed their solution to avoid backlash from 'conservative partners'
After a user called lawmakers like AOC "black c---s," employees sought to crush hate speech. Execut…
Katie Canales
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Facebook's policy chief was sat closely behind Brett Kavanaugh during his explosive Senate grilling
New York Times reporter Mike Isaac was among those who spotted Kaplan, who was said to be there in …
Jake Kanter,Jake Kanter,Rob P…
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Facebook reportedly stopped a project to encourage healthier political discussions after a key exec thought it might offend conservatives
Ultimately, Kaplan is said to have believed that these efforts to curb political polarization would…
Matt Weinberger
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Williams syndrome is the genetic condition that makes people pathologically friendly in a lonely world
Living with Williams syndrome makes people hypersocial in a world where loneliness is an epidemic. …
Hayley Cuccinello
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Facebook staffers were told by execs to scrap any mention of Russia in a 2017 white paper on the platform's security concerns: 'We started to feel like we were part of a cover-up'
Facebook executives told then-Chief Security Officer Alex Stamos to cut all mentions of Russia from…
Sarah Jackson
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Facebook is battling an internal revolt after one of its execs went to the Kavanaugh hearing
In one internal message quoted by The Times, a Facebook employee railed against Kaplan's attendance…
Rob Price
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10 Things in Politics: January 6 survivors struggle to move on
And a coup appears to be unfolding in Sudan.
Brent D. Griffiths
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Mark Zuckerberg held a meeting to try and calm Facebook employee outrage after an exec attended the Kavanaugh hearing
Kaplan reportedly said he felt he had an obligation to Kavanaugh, and he acknowledged he should've …