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Internal docs show the extent of Facebook's knowledge of extremist Groups on its site but don't offer a complete picture of its decision-making in response

Company documents show that the social network's employees repeatedly raised red flags about the spread of misinformation and conspiracies …

New York Times

Context & Ripple Effects

The Groups disclosures sit alongside staff criticism of Facebook's failure to curb Stop The Steal Groups tied to January 6 and documented difficulties applying dangerous-group rules in India. Together, the records place misinformation, conspiracies, and violence-inciting content within a broader pattern of internal warnings about enforcement.

The related documents also show employee misgivings about Facebook's government-relations operation, making the gap between staff concerns and company response a governance issue as well as a moderation issue.

First-order effects

  • Facebook has to account for why repeated internal warnings about extremist Groups, misinformation, and conspiracies did not produce a clearer or more effective response; the documents do not establish the full decision chain.
  • Employees' concerns about Group enforcement become part of the public record, reducing Facebook's ability to characterize the problem solely as an unanticipated misuse of its services.

Second-order effects

  • The Groups record and India's dangerous-group designation failures connect separate moderation disputes into a cross-market question about whether Facebook applies its rules consistently.
  • Facebook's lobbying and government-relations operation faces more direct scrutiny because internal concerns about speech policy now intersect with evidence of enforcement gaps.

Third-order effects

  • If further internal records continue to show warnings preceding enforcement failures, platform-safety debates will increasingly focus on corporate accountability for known risks rather than on the existence of harmful content alone.

The trend: Leaked platform records are shifting scrutiny from isolated moderation failures toward the gap between internal risk knowledge, policy enforcement, and corporate governance.

Discussion

  • @rmac18 @rmac18 on x
    Six days after Nov. 3, a Facebook data scientist noticed as much as 1 out of every 50 US views (or 10% of all political views) on the platform were on posts alleging election fraud. Our story on how employees felt FB could have done more ahead of Jan. 6: https://www.nytimes.com/.…
  • @moonalice Roger McNamee on x
    NYT just did FB a huge favor. They released the huge (and embargoed until Monday) 1/6 story on Friday night, diminishing its impact. NYT says they have an independent source. Was that source inside FB Comms? That would be a classic FB move.
  • @amaramarasingam Amarnath Amarasingam on x
    In 2019, a researcher employed by Facebook invented a user named Carol Smith Smith said she was interested in politics, parenting, and Christianity. Though never expressing interest in conspiracies, in just two days Facebook sent her to QAnon accounts. https://www.nbcnews.com/...
  • @jason_kint Jason Kint on x
    OK, having read @sheeraf @RMac18 NYT report closely, it's really superb reporting. It walks thru everything leading up, during Jan 6th. It does a “truth sandwich” with damming evidence mostly from Facebook on both sides of Facebook spokesperson's “pride.” https://www.nytimes.com/…
  • @mollyjongfast Molly Jong-Fast on x
    So Facebook knew? https://www.nytimes.com/...
  • @davidclinchnews David Clinch on x
    This is a BFD -> https://twitter.com/...
  • @frankluntz Frank Luntz on x
    “Facebook pushed some users into ‘rabbit holes,’ increasingly narrow echo-chambers where violent conspiracy theories thrived. People radicalized through these rabbit holes make up a small slice of total users, but at Facebook's scale, that can mean millions of individuals.” https…
  • @william_fitz William Fitzgerald on x
    “What the documents do not offer is a complete picture of decision making inside Facebook. ” fb is so so fukd if someone with regular access to zuck & sandberg decides they're willing to give up a lot of money and do the right thing by sharing direct info about decision making. h…
  • @can @can on x
    One thing to remember is that the only actual thing any Facebook employee could have done is actually quit. Raising flags and collecting checks as the democracy goes down the drain is essentially Just Following Orders https://twitter.com/...
  • @ceciliakang Cecilia Kang on x
    With documents obtained by @RMac18 @sheeraf and from the whistleblower, a harrowing look at how employees raised red flags for many months before the Jan. 6 Riots - to public shrugs from top leaders https://www.nytimes.com/...
  • @justinhendrix Justin Hendrix on x
    @RMac18 @oneunderscore__ I'm sorry, Ryan. Nick Clegg said Facebook had nothing to do with January 6.
  • @juliacarriew Julia Carrie Wong on x
    For years Facebook treated reporters who came to it with concerns about how it seemed to be pushing people toward extremism and conspiracies like we were hysterical scolds making mountains out of mole hills but actually it knew that we were right https://www.nytimes.com/...
  • @justinhendrix Justin Hendrix on x
    Crucial report from @RMac18 and @sheeraf that will no doubt interest @RepAdamSchiff, @RepRaskin, @RepLizCheney & other members of the @January6thCmte charged with considering what factors such as online platforms helped create the conditions for violence. https://twitter.com/...
  • @daveyalba Davey Alba on x
    @RMac18 @sheeraf I was reading a draft of this piece earlier today and it brought back the pit in my stomach of total helplessness in the months before the election to Jan. 6. Just a really good tick-tock of the events and how FB employees dealt with it. What they knew. https://w…
  • @bernardchickey Bernard Hickey on x
    FYI. Why are we allowing Facebook's algorithm to hyper-spread lies to our most vulnerable in Aotearoa? It is a threat to collective health and wellbeing, let alone the economy. https://twitter.com/...
  • @rmac18 @rmac18 on x
    This story took a while to report and was based on docs obtained by Frances Haugen + others that I've reported on in the past. It includes this March report that we reported at @BuzzFeedNews. FB took it down internally after our story. So we published it: https://www.buzzfeednews…
  • @sal19 @sal19 on x
    Yet another Facebook whistleblower has spoken up. Reporting by the @WashingtonPost https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
  • @jgo4justice Jessica González on x
    But let's focus on what this means: a second whistleblower has come out, at great personal risk, to corroborate Frances Haugen's revelations that Facebook hasn't done enough to stop hate, conspiracies and violence organized on its platform.
  • @jgo4justice Jessica González on x
    And I'm feeling “pissy” about it because Facebook's failures have put me and my community at greater risk for hate, harassment, violence and disinformation campaigns aimed to decrease the number of Latinx people who turn out to vote.
  • @juliadavisnews Julia Davis on x
    Facebook official about the controversy re Russian election interference: “It will be a flash in the pan. Some legislators will get pissy... in a few weeks they will move onto something else. Meanwhile we are printing money in the basement, & we are fine.” https://www.washingtonp…
  • @emilybell Emily Bell on x
    One of the most depressing aspects of this is that the ‘comms official’ was pretty much right. The Honest Ads Act etc - never came to pass.FB enjoyed record $$ https://twitter.com/...
  • @brainnotonyet Karl on x
    The right has been lying about social media bias while creating a massive far-right propaganda and radicalization platform under those false pretenses. If only people had been warning of this for years. This is a great example of weaponized unreality and its inversion of reality …
  • @stevesilberman Steve Silberman on x
    One of the things that will astonish historians is how much damage to the entire world Trump's tight little circle of pedophiles, criminals, Russian agents, meth-freaks, and psychopaths was able to do with sheer bullying. “Big Tech” is the best friend these scumbags ever had. htt…
  • @annmlipton Ann Lipton on x
    i mean the fascinating thing again is that the whistleblower is going to the sec. is that bc of protections the securities laws afford against retaliation? https://twitter.com/...
  • @slpng_giants @slpng_giants on x
    We even ran ads on Facebook targeted at @facebook employees asking them if they knew why Breitbart was given special treatment. No answer. Now it's clear why. Kaplan was flying cover for Breitbart the whole time. What an absolute outrage. We need transparency now. https://twitter…
  • @donie Donie O'Sullivan on x
    “At Facebook, I soon learned, there's no will to actually fix problems, in particular if doing so might reduce user engagement, and therefore profits. Instead, management treated everything as a PR issue only.”
  • @jesselehrich Jesse Lehrich on x
    .@Facebook really seems to think they can just go full Trumpian war against the press & it'll end well. here's journalist-turned-FB spox Erin McPike berating WaPo for writing a story off a single... whistleblower's sworn affidavit? https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twit…
  • @slpng_giants @slpng_giants on x
    Knew it. Knew it exactly when it was happening. Here it is. Definitive proof that @facebook made special concessions for Breitbart when they set up their “trusted news” tab. @campbell_brown, their head of news, wouldn't answer why. Now we know. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...…
  • @wiczipedia Nina Jankowicz on x
    On Russian interference in 2016, a FB comms official said: “It will be a flash in the pan. Some legislators will get pissy. And then in a few weeks they will move onto something else. Meanwhile we are printing money in the basement, and we are fine.” https://www.washingtonpost.co…
  • @jgo4justice Jessica González on x
    He can say he didn't say this, but for any of us who have advocated for FB to clean up its act over the past decade, this sounds awfully familiar.
  • @green_footballs Charles Johnson on x
    Wow. The latest allegation is that Facebook specifically EXEMPTED hate sites like Breitbart “News” from policy enforcement. New whistleblower claims Facebook allowed hate, illegal activity to go unchecked https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
  • @stevekovach Steve Kovach on x
    Facebook responded to this by insulting the Washington Post instead of addressing the whistleblower's allegations. https://twitter.com/...
  • @katestarbird Kate Starbird on x
    Again, we hear that instead of holding highly visible, “repeat offender” accounts & domains to higher standards (e.g. around the spread of misinformation), FB whitelisted them, fearing political and PR blowback. And again that private groups are toxic. https://www.washingtonpost.…
  • @patti_foss Patti on x
    @profcarroll What is wrong with these people? They knowingly used toxic hate, propaganda which have harmed alot of people, to win elections, while so many hide behind religion. Who does that to people in your own country?
  • @donie Donie O'Sullivan on x
    The whistleblower is anonymous but has spoken to @craigtimberg, who broke the story. Check out Facebook's response to the story.... https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
  • @bgrueskin Bill Grueskin on x
    Facebook is like a tobacco grower, an asbestos manufacturer and a lead-paint supplier, all rolled into one company https://twitter.com/...
  • @joshsternberg Josh Sternbag on x
    A new whistleblower affidavit submitted by a former Facebook employee Friday alleges that the company prizes growth and profits over combatting hate speech, misinformation and other threats to the public https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
  • @caseynewton Casey Newton on x
    (Most of the charges here are oft-rehearsed and it's not clear what new evidence there is in this new SEC complaint, aside from some fresh hearsay)
  • @caseynewton Casey Newton on x
    My joke idea for a new Facebook name has been “Whistleblowers Inc.” because it would make stories about Facebook whistleblowers too confusing to follow. Anyway there's a new Facebook whistleblower https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
  • @anothercultland @anothercultland on x
    ummmm, that statement isn't exactly a denial https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
  • @gretchenspeters Gretchen Peters on x
    Notice that @tuckerbounds and other #Facebook execs are not denying they said it. They are just counterattacking. #typical https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
  • @new_narrative Mike Walker on x
    Another whistleblower accuses Facebook of valuing growth and profits over the combating of hate speech and misinformation https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
  • @viacristiano Cristiano Lima on x
    🚨 Breaking: Another Facebook whistleblower has alleged in an SEC complaint that the company prizes its profits over battling hate speech & misinformation https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... via @craigtimberg
  • @kantrowitz Alex Kantrowitz on x
    They're gonna run out of whistles https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
  • @brandyzadrozny Brandy Zadrozny on x
    New from me: New internal documents show Facebook has long known—via years of experimentation and research—that its algorithms and recommendation systems push users to extremes. To researchers they gaslit, “Facebook literally helped facilitate a cult.” https://www.nbcnews.com/...
  • @ttp_updates @ttp_updates on x
    THREAD: For months, TTP monitored and recorded threats from militia and far-right actors online In January, we released what we gathered in that time: militia recruiting, threats to public officials, even calls for martyrdom—all posted openly on Facebook https://www.techtranspare…
  • @oneunderscore__ Ben Collins on x
    New from the Facebook leaks, by @BrandyZadrozny: Facebook staffers created a Trump-loving, Fox News-watching fake identity. The account went wherever the algorithm told it to go. It went full-on QAnon in two days. Facebook told nobody about this. https://www.nbcnews.com/...
  • @jesselehrich Jesse Lehrich on x
    full QAnon in 2 days. & Facebook scoffs at anyone who suggests their algos are problematic. https://twitter.com/...
  • @melissaryan Melissa Ryan on x
    So many reporters and researchers have run similar experiments over the years. Always with the same results. Every time Facebook would say the experiment was flawed and that wasn't actually how the platform worked. Every. Single. Time. https://twitter.com/...
  • @robpegoraro Rob Pegoraro on x
    “a barrage of extreme, conspiratorial, and graphic content”: how one of Facebook's own researchers described the path of a test user created in 2019 with tastes in politics, parenting, Christianity, Fox News and Trump to see how Facebook's recommendation algorithms would respond.…
  • @jeffhorwitz Jeff Horwitz on x
    This story gets into important territory about the continuity between different conspiracy movements — and how one engenders the next. Also, the renaming of a tool called “Rabbithole” as “Drebbel” makes more sense now that I know it's the name of the inventor of the submarine. ht…
  • @karenkornbluh Karen Kornbluh on x
    Shocking new details. Confirms that government has been derelict in not acting. There were always ways to regulate *the design* upstream from the content - it was never about the “truth police.” Now so much harm has been done https://twitter.com/...
  • @juliacarriew Julia Carrie Wong on x
    I just want to scream https://twitter.com/...
  • @evilgalprods @evilgalprods on x
    Every. Single. Word. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
  • @wiczipedia Nina Jankowicz on x
    Important reporting from @BrandyZadrozny. Critically, as she notes, many researchers were confirming and re-confirming the danger of Group recommendations for years before Facebook took action. So much wasted time. https://twitter.com/...
  • @eliotwb Eliot Brown on x
    Facebook exec (and a Harvard pal of Zuckerberg) recommends curbs to virality to stave off bad effects Head of ads responds: “'If we remove a small percentage of reshares from people's inventory,' he wrote, ‘they decide to come back to Facebook less.’” https://www.wsj.com/...
  • @fchollet @fchollet on x
    FB's algorithmic mind-steering has only one stable attractor: extreme radicalization. https://twitter.com/...
  • @peterwsinger Peter W. Singer on x
    This may be one of the most damning of the Facebook leaks... https://twitter.com/...
  • @davidoatkins David Atkins on x
    Facebook is poison. It has always been poison. And they knew it. https://twitter.com/...
  • @jimhansondc Jim Hanson on x
    That's fun What happened when they made a woke identity? Wait They never did that? Hmmm https://twitter.com/...
  • @cydharrell Cyd Harrell on x
    couple more things: 1. some of the resistance to user research is because we find inconvenient things that people would rather not know (@mulegirl talks about this a lot) 2. researchers do a service by documenting, but need to be realistic about our chances of changing anything h…
  • @davidoatkins David Atkins on x
    All the big journo influencers on twitter are beating on each other over Popularism, when THIS is the answer. People, especially low-trust voters, get their news on Facebook. Facebook is driving them to right-wing conspiracy theories. Policy and activist slogans are irrelevant. h…
  • @edzitron Ed Dead Redemption on x
    The years and years and years of the media taking Facebook at their word and giving them puff press was a bad idea https://twitter.com/...
  • @zeynep Zeynep Tufekci on x
    “The body of research consistently found Facebook pushed some users into “rabbit holes,” increasingly narrow echo chambers where violent conspiracy theories thrived.” https://twitter.com/...
  • @anneapplebaum Anne Applebaum on x
    “Facebook pushed some users into “rabbit holes,” increasingly narrow echo chambers where violent conspiracy theories thrived...at Facebook's scale, that can mean millions of individuals.' https://www.nbcnews.com/... via @nbcnews
  • @c_c_krebs Chris Krebs on x
    Important reporting including insights from @noUpside. I'm convinced Covid-related drop in community-centric social activities (kids sports, offices, etc) lowered barriers to crazytown & accelerated radicalization along multiple conspiracy theories. https://twitter.com/...
  • @amir Amir Efrati on x
    Looks like the piece we published may have ended the embargo? In case, first Facebook consortium member out of the gate is the great @BrandyZadrozny from NBC: https://twitter.com/...
  • @grimlyspoken Grimm on x
    @oneunderscore__ @BrandyZadrozny What happened in Myanmar is a literal precursor to what is happening here. Facebook watched an ethnic group get slaughtered, did nothing, and now had facilitated and even pushed a homegrown domestic threat in the United States. This article is gre…
  • @clearing_fog ClearingTheFog on x
    Please read this. So many of us have been shouting for years that Facebook is *knowingly* facilitating extremism, and yet they've continued to get a pass in our media, as if they were somehow “trying.” Their own internal documents repeatedly prove that they knew. https://twitter.…
  • @jaxalemany Jacqueline Alemany on x
    Facebook has yet to fully comply with requests for data from the House select committee investigating the 1/6 events. Read @craigtimberg, @lizzadwoskin, @ReedAlbergotti on FB & Jan. 6 > https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
  • @resistbot @resistbot on x
    “That researcher said Smith's Facebook experience was ‘a barrage of extreme, conspiratorial, and graphic content.’” https://www.nbcnews.com/...
  • @jbadomics @jbadomics on x
    “...this damage control goes to eleven.” https://twitter.com/...
  • @timmarchman Tim Marchman on x
    Incredible. Facebook internally reproduced the outside reporting that has been done on it, showing that the way its products were built promoted QAnon and the anti-vax movement in ways that fed on one another, and did ... nothing. https://twitter.com/...
  • @jeffhorwitz Jeff Horwitz on x
    This story with @ScheckWSJ shows how Facebook's platforms might be different - if it wanted them to be. We know the controversies over content moderation - per @masnick, it can't be done well at scale. (The “at scale” part might be optimistic, though). https://www.wsj.com/...
  • @blackamazon @blackamazon on x
    Only white sources. No mention of the reports on racial overtones or targeting. Makes the entire story about how “white people are mislead” And not that Facebook let itself be hunting grounds for people of color for YEARS Gotta love the “learning” going on from white news https:/…
  • @cwarzel Charlie Warzel on x
    this facebook internal experiment reminds me of this 2017 @broderick piece! https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
  • @newley Newley Purnell on x
    Reluctant to turn down the volume on viral content, Facebook is instead playing whack-a-mole with political groups it deems harmful, with little public disclosure or right of appeal. Facebook Files latest. By @JeffHorwitz @ScheckWSJ: https://www.wsj.com/...
  • @trippmickle Tripp Mickle on x
    Damned if they do. Damned if they don't. @ScheckWSJ and @JeffHorwitz on the surgical way it suppressed the push to develop a Patriot Party after Jan. 6 https://www.wsj.com/...
  • @moonalice Roger McNamee on x
    An epic thread from @TTP_updates details how FB handled right wing extremist groups during 2020 and into early 2021. They found clear evidence that FB enabled and amplified these groups after election and allowed them to operate online stores. Management knew. https://twitter.com…
  • @joenbc Joe Scarborough on x
    Facebook made an insurrection against the United States possible. Then it's leaders refused to let an oversight board investigate. New documents suggest Mark Zuckerberg and company remain a threat to democracy. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
  • @wiczipedia Nina Jankowicz on x
    Facebook moved too quickly to removed its election protection measures. In disinformation campaigns, Election Day is an inflection point, not an end point. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
  • @rawstory Raw Story on x
    ‘History will not judge us kindly’: Facebook internal messages show employees fuming on Jan. 6 over company's role in Capitol riot https://www.rawstory.com/...
  • @richismo77 @richismo77 on x
    Facebook breathed relief that immediately post-Election Day 2020, it could go back to taking fascist money for publishing insurrectionist deza for 1/6/21. How much did it take in? I hope it was worth it to Zuckerberg, who really seems more Jason. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ .…
  • @drdenagrayson @drdenagrayson on x
    🚨Internal #Facebook documents show that posts—including by Trump—fueled the #January6thInsurrection. User reports of “false news” hit ~40,000 per hour. On Instagram, the account reported most often for inciting violence was @realdonaldtrump.🤬 https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
  • @drdenagrayson @drdenagrayson on x
    Bottom line: #Facebook and Zuck *knew* that they were fomenting hate and violence in advance of the #January6thInsurrection. They didn't care, because they PROFITED off it. They're a cancer on our democracy. Act accordingly. #DeleteFacebook https://twitter.com/... https://twitter…
  • @ecmclaughlin Elizabeth C. McLaughlin on x
    COMPLICIT. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
  • @jeffhorwitz Jeff Horwitz on x
    @karissabe In this instance, the FB research was literally something anyone with a fresh account could do. It's striking that this had to be demonstrated by researchers internally (though it was very good work!)
  • @drdenagrayson @drdenagrayson on x
    ‼️Facebook has declined to deploy some mitigation tactics when Mark #Zuckerberg has objected on the basis that they will cause too many “false positives” or might stop people from engaging with its platforms. Zuck puts PROFIT over protecting our democracy.🤬 #DeleteFacebook
  • @drdenagrayson @drdenagrayson on x
    One FB employee fumed, “This is not a new problem. We have been watching this behavior from politicians like Trump, and the—at best—wishy washy actions of company leadership, for years now....”
  • @jesselehrich Jesse Lehrich on x
    .@facebook employee bemoaning FB's role in the insurrection: “Never forget the day Trump rode down the escalator in 2015, called for a ban on Muslims entering the US & we determined that it violated our policies & yet we explicitly overrode the policy...” https://www.washingtonpo…
  • @drdenagrayson @drdenagrayson on x
    “... We have been reading the [farewell] posts from trusted, experienced and loved colleagues who write that they simply cannot conscience working for a company that does not do more to mitigate the negative effects on its platform.”💥 EXACTLY. #DeleteFacebook
  • @jamesrbuk James Ball on x
    This is *high stakes* timing for the media vs Facebook as it coordinates with quarterly earnings day. While no-one reports to purposely damage stock price, if a huge group of major outlets publish simultaneously and it's outweighed in markets by Facebook results...that's a moment…
  • @iankar_ Ian Kar on x
    Not sure how other content/media ppl feel about this but w/o knowing what's in the docs, I find this a bit much. There's a difference between journalism and collusion against private companies https://www.theinformation.com/ ...
  • @goldstein222 Daniel Goldstein on x
    @iankar_ Whoa, such a surprise that all the huge media companies that Facebook steals Ad dollars from want to take them down Hmmmm...that doesn't seem suspicious at all
  • @parismartineau Paris Martineau on x
    Facebook should have just tweeted that they were mad because all the tech reporters were hanging out in a Slack group called ‘Apparently we are a consortium now’ https://www.theinformation.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
  • @timkarr Tim Karr on x
    Facebook undoubtedly in full on crisis mode as it prepares for a series of exposés Monday from the likes of AP, Reuters, CNN, the NYT, WaPo, Le Monde and other outlets working in coordination to report on @FrancesHaugen's massive trove of documents. https://twitter.com/...
  • @alexstamos Alex Stamos on x
    What would it take to get this consortium of media outlets looking at Facebook integrity docs to commit to publishing the underlying documents with every story (redacted for privacy)? These docs could revolutionize academic study of online harms but not without the real data.
  • @bostonjoan Joan S. Pumpkins on x
    Whatever happens, it is critical that the media doesn't become the story here. What these internal studies represent is a new basis to build shared facts across journalism, research, gov, and industry. https://twitter.com/...
  • @martinsfp Martin Sfp Bryant on x
    Haha. I shouldn't laugh but this is sadly familiar. The rule with this stuff should be ‘we all hold the line’. Did they all really start folding over a piece from The Information? https://twitter.com/...
  • @juanof9 Juan Ortiz Freuler on x
    @alexstamos I mean, why aren't we asking Facebook to release these docs itself? They have many more to release as well. “They could revolutionize....”
  • @amir Amir Efrati on x
    ( thought this would last til Monday. @benyt shows that is not likely. https://twitter.com/...
  • @skirchy Stephanie Kirchgaessner on x
    It doesn't have to go down this way. Collaborations can be stressful and intense and usually the stories are difficult and complex. But in two collaborations I've worked on having one great big newsroom has been rewarding journalistically. There's so much to learn from each other…
  • @mitch_troy Mitchell Troyanovsky on x
    @iankar_ Bit different when what they're reporting on is a direct competitor to them id say
  • @kantrowitz Alex Kantrowitz on x
    The consortium of publications that Frances Haugen handed her documents to blew up tonight ahead of a Monday embargo. Get ready for lots of Facebook stories to drop tonight and tomorrow. It's a mess. https://twitter.com/...
  • @brianmcc Brian McCullough on x
    Not saying I care. Just saying we talked about this coming on the bonus episode... https://www.techmeme.com/...
  • @markdistef Mark Di Stefano on x
    Here's Associated Press tonight; “Every outlet has freedom to pursue whatever story it wants. Nonetheless, it's remarkable to see these news organizations... set aside some of their competitive impulses and work together to work on something unquestionably in the public interest”
  • @alexeheath Alex Heath on x
    live look inside Facebook's communications department https://twitter.com/...
  • @drewpusateri Drew Pusateri on x
    can confirm https://twitter.com/...