{"id":1058,"date":"2021-11-22T03:27:17","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T02:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/2021\/11\/22\/the-facebook-files-the-wall-street-journal\/"},"modified":"2021-11-22T03:27:17","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T02:27:17","slug":"the-facebook-files-the-wall-street-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/2021\/11\/22\/the-facebook-files-the-wall-street-journal\/","title":{"rendered":"The Facebook Files &#8211; The Wall Street Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"cfbc967f0983488262956e73eca9483a\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3859091246952232\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- blok -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3859091246952232\" data-ad-slot=\"1334354390\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n\n<\/div>\n<p>https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/the-facebook-files-11631713039<br \/>                       <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/market-data\/quotes\/FB\">Facebook<\/a><span class=\"company-name-type\"> Inc.<\/span>        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/market-data\/quotes\/FB?mod=chiclets\" class=\"media-object-chiclet up\" data-channel=\"\/zigman2\/quotes\/205064656\/composite\" data-symbol=\"FB\" data-changepercent=\"1.95\">         FB <span>1.95%<\/span>       <\/a>         knows, in acute detail, that its platforms are riddled with flaws that cause harm, often in ways only the company fully understands. That is the central finding of a Wall Street Journal series, based on a review of internal Facebook documents, including research reports, online employee discussions and drafts of presentations to senior management.<br \/>Time and again, the documents show, Facebook\u2019s researchers have identified the platform\u2019s ill effects. Time and again, despite congressional hearings, its own pledges and numerous media expos\u00e9s, the company didn\u2019t fix them. The documents offer perhaps the clearest picture thus far of how broadly Facebook\u2019s problems are known inside the company, up to the chief executive himself.<br \/>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/topics\/person\/mark-zuckerberg\">Mark Zuckerberg<\/a>                  has said Facebook allows its users to speak on equal footing with the elites of politics, culture and journalism, and that its standards apply to everyone. In private, the company has built a system that has exempted high-profile users from some or all of its rules. The program, known as \u201ccross check\u201d or \u201cXCheck,\u201d was intended as a quality-control measure for high-profile accounts. Today, it shields millions of VIPs from the company\u2019s normal enforcement, the documents show. Many abuse the privilege, posting material including harassment and incitement to violence that would typically lead to sanctions. Facebook says criticism of the program is fair, that it was designed for a good purpose and that the company is working to fix it. (Listen to a related <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/podcasts\/the-journal\/the-facebook-files-part-1-the-whitelist\/AA216713-15AF-474E-9FD4-5070CCAA774C?mod=article_inline\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"icon none\" rel=\"noopener\">podcast<\/a>.)<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/facebook-files-xcheck-zuckerberg-elite-rules-11631541353?mod=article_inline\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"icon document\" rel=\"noopener\">Continue Story \u2192<\/a><br \/>Researchers inside Instagram, which is owned by Facebook, have been studying for years how its photo-sharing app affects millions of young users. Repeatedly, the company found that Instagram is harmful for a sizable percentage of them, most notably teenage girls, more so than other social-media platforms. In public, Facebook has consistently played down the app\u2019s negative effects, including in comments to Congress, and hasn\u2019t made its research public or available to academics or lawmakers who have asked for it. In response, Facebook says the negative effects aren\u2019t widespread, that the mental-health research is valuable and that some of the harmful aspects aren\u2019t easy to address. (Listen to a related <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/podcasts\/the-journal\/the-facebook-files-part-2-we-make-body-image-issues-worse\/C2C4D7BA-F261-4343-8D18-D4DE177CF973?mod=article_inline\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"icon none\" rel=\"noopener\">podcast<\/a>.) <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/facebook-knows-instagram-is-toxic-for-teen-girls-company-documents-show-11631620739?mod=hp_lead_pos7&#038;mod=article_inline\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"icon document\" rel=\"noopener\">Continue Story \u2192<\/a><br \/>Facebook made a heralded change to its algorithm in 2018 designed to improve its platform\u2014and arrest signs of declining user engagement. Mr. Zuckerberg declared his aim was to strengthen bonds between users and improve their well-being by fostering interactions between friends and family. Within the company, the documents show, staffers warned the change was having the opposite effect. It was making Facebook, and those who used it, angrier. Mr. Zuckerberg resisted some fixes proposed by his team, the documents show, because he worried they would lead people to interact with Facebook less. Facebook, in response, says any algorithm can promote objectionable or harmful content and that the company is doing its best to mitigate the problem. (Listen to a related <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/podcasts\/the-journal\/the-facebook-files-part-4-the-outrage-algorithm\/e619fbb7-43b0-485b-877f-18a98ffa773f?mod=article_inline\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"icon none\" rel=\"noopener\">podcast<\/a>.)<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/facebook-algorithm-change-zuckerberg-11631654215?mod=article_inline\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"icon document\" rel=\"noopener\">Continue Story \u2192<\/a><br \/>Scores of Facebook documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal show employees raising alarms about how its platforms are used in developing countries, where its user base is huge and expanding. Employees flagged that human traffickers in the Middle East used the site to lure women into abusive employment situations. They warned that armed groups in Ethiopia used the site to incite violence against ethnic minorities. They sent alerts to their bosses about organ selling, pornography and government action against political dissent, according to the documents. They also show the company\u2019s response, which in many instances is inadequate or nothing at all. A Facebook spokesman said the company has deployed global teams, local partnerships and third-party fact checkers to keep users safe. (Listen to a related <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/podcasts\/the-journal\/the-facebook-files-part-3-this-shouldnt-happen-on-facebook\/0ec75bcc-5290-4ca5-8b7c-84bdce7eb11f?mod=article_inline\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"icon none\" rel=\"noopener\">podcast<\/a>.)<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/facebook-drug-cartels-human-traffickers-response-is-weak-documents-11631812953?mod=article_inline\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"icon document\" rel=\"noopener\">Continue Story \u2192<\/a><br \/>Facebook threw its weight behind promoting Covid-19 vaccines\u2014\u201ca top company priority,\u201d one memo said\u2014in a demonstration of Mr. Zuckerberg\u2019s faith that his creation is a force for social good in the world. It ended up demonstrating the gulf between his aspirations and the reality of the world\u2019s largest social platform. Activists flooded the network with what Facebook calls \u201cbarrier to vaccination\u201d content, the internal memos show. They used Facebook\u2019s own tools to sow doubt about the severity of the pandemic\u2019s threat and the safety of authorities\u2019 main weapon to combat it. The Covid-19 problems make it uncomfortably clear: Even when he set a goal, the chief executive couldn\u2019t steer the platform as he wanted. A Facebook spokesman said in a statement that the data shows vaccine hesitancy for people in the U.S. on Facebook has declined by about 50% since January, and that the documents show the company\u2019s \u201croutine process for dealing with difficult challenges.\u201d<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/facebook-mark-zuckerberg-vaccinated-11631880296?mod=article_inline\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"icon document\" rel=\"noopener\">Continue Story \u2192<\/a><br \/>Facebook has come under increasing fire in recent days for its effect on young users. Inside the company, teams of employees have for years been laying plans to attract preteens that go beyond what is publicly known, spurred by fear that it could lose a wave of users critical to its future. \u201cWhy do we care about tweens?\u201d said one document from 2020. \u201cThey are a valuable but untapped audience.\u201d                        Adam Mosseri,           head of Instagram, said Facebook is not recruiting people too young to use its apps\u2014the current age limit is 13\u2014but is instead trying to understand how teens and preteens use technology and to appeal to the next generation. (Listen to a related <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/podcasts\/the-journal\/the-facebook-files-part-5-the-push-to-attract-younger-users\/ca84a552-9b4e-4f8f-9575-597b4b089062?mod=article_inline\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"icon none\" rel=\"noopener\">podcast<\/a>.)<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/facebook-instagram-kids-tweens-attract-11632849667?mod=article_inline\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"icon document\" rel=\"noopener\">Continue Story \u2192<\/a><br \/>A Senate Commerce Committee hearing about Facebook, teens and mental health was prompted by a mid-September article in The Wall Street Journal. Based on internal company documents, it detailed Facebook\u2019s internal research on the negative impact of its Instagram app on teen girls and others. Six of the documents that formed the basis of the Instagram article are published here.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/facebook-documents-instagram-teens-11632953840?mod=article_inline\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"icon document\" rel=\"noopener\">Continue Story \u2192<\/a><br \/>The Wall Street Journal reviewed 10 years of Facebook annual employee lists, which showed names, titles and managers for Facebook\u2019s staffers and contract workers. The data show which teams under which executives have expanded the fastest, providing an unusually detailed public view of the company\u2019s shifting power centers and priorities.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/facebook-employee-data-zuckerberg-sandberg-olivan-11633089498?mod=article_inline\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"icon document\" rel=\"noopener\">Continue Story \u2192<\/a><br \/>\u200bFrances Haugen, a former Facebook product manager who gathered documents that formed the basis for the Journal\u2019s series, said she had grown frustrated by what she saw as the company\u2019s lack of openness about its platforms\u2019 potential for harm and unwillingness to address its flaws. A Facebook spokesman Andy Stone said the company strives to balance free expression with safety. \u201cTo suggest we encourage bad content and do nothing is just not true,\u201d he said. Listen to Ms. Haugen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/podcasts\/the-journal\/the-facebook-files-part-6-the-whistleblower\/b311b3d8-b50a-425f-9eb7-12a9c4278acd?mod=article_inline\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"icon none\" rel=\"noopener\">on the Journal\u2019s podcast<\/a>.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/facebook-whistleblower-frances-haugen-says-she-wants-to-fix-the-company-not-harm-it-11633304122?mod=article_inline\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"icon document\" rel=\"noopener\">Continue Story \u2192<\/a><br \/>Facebook executives have long said artificial intelligence would address the company\u2019s chronic problems keeping what it deems hate speech and excessive violence off its platforms. That future is farther away than those executives suggest, according to internal documents. Employees say Facebook removes only a sliver of the posts that violate its rules, and that Facebook\u2019s AI can\u2019t consistently identify first-person shooting videos, racist rants and even, in one notable episode, the difference between cockfighting and car crashes, according to the documents. Facebook, in response, says it takes other actions to reduce how many people view content that violates its policies and that the prevalence of that material has been shrinking. (Listen to a related <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/podcasts\/the-journal\/the-facebook-files-part-7-the-ai-challenge\/318d6439-93e5-4352-9f08-402af9a79d4b?mod=article_inline\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"icon none\" rel=\"noopener\">podcast<\/a>.)<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/facebook-ai-enforce-rules-engineers-doubtful-artificial-intelligence-11634338184?mod=article_inline\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"icon document\" rel=\"noopener\">Continue Story \u2192<\/a><br \/>Facebook is struggling to detect users\u2019 creating multiple accounts on its flagship platform, according to internal documents, raising questions about how the social-media giant measures its audience. One Facebook presentation called the phenomenon of single users with multiple accounts \u201cvery prevalent\u201d among new accounts, after an examination of roughly 5,000 recent sign-ups indicated that as many as 56% were opened by existing users. Facebook says those numbers are incorporated into estimates it discloses of duplicate accounts, and that such accounts pose a challenge for many large internet companies. <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/how-many-users-does-facebook-have-the-company-struggles-to-figure-it-out-11634846701?mod=hp_lead_pos4&#038;mod=article_inline\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"icon document\" rel=\"noopener\">Continue Story \u2192<\/a><br \/>Internal Facebook documents show that people inside the company have long discussed a systematic approach to restrict features that disproportionately amplify incendiary and divisive posts. Facebook rejected those efforts because they would impede the platform\u2019s usage and growth. Instead, Facebook is making ad hoc decisions about groups it deems harmful, such as a movement by far-right activists after the Jan. 6 Capitol riot to form what they called a Patriot Party. The company\u2019s approach puts it in a role of refereeing public discourse that strays from its public commitment to neutrality. Facebook acknowledges tension in its work on such viral social movements, and says it has invented new technologies and balanced difficult trade-offs to develop its solutions. (Listen to a related <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/podcasts\/the-journal\/the-facebook-files-part-8-a-new-enforcement-strategy\/87b65b05-de52-40f7-bbc3-d1a5d7932201?mod=article_inline\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"icon none\" rel=\"noopener\">podcast<\/a>.)<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/facebook-suppresses-political-movements-patriot-party-11634937358?mod=article_inline\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"icon document\" rel=\"noopener\">Continue Story \u2192<\/a><br \/>Facebook researchers documented how its platform has contributed to divisive, inter-religious conflict in India, according to internal records. The company\u2019s researchers found hate speech spiked by 300% amid bloody riots, and that Indian users held the company responsible for failing to prevent or police it. Facebook has traced some of the stream of hate to influential entities tied to India\u2019s ruling government but hasn\u2019t taken action amid concerns about \u201cpolitical sensitivities.\u201d Facebook says hate speech against Muslims is rising world-wide, and that the company is working to improve enforcement on its platforms. <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/facebook-services-are-used-to-spread-religious-hatred-in-india-internal-documents-show-11635016354?mod=article_inline\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"icon document\" rel=\"noopener\">Continue Story \u2192<\/a><br \/>Facebook employees and their bosses have hotly debated whether and how to restrain right-wing publishers, with more-senior employees often providing a check on agitation from the rank and file, according to internal documents viewed by the Journal. The documents, which don\u2019t capture all of the employee messaging, didn\u2019t mention equivalent debates over left-wing publications. Other documents also reveal that Facebook\u2019s management team has been so intently focused on avoiding charges of bias that it regularly places political considerations at the center of its decision making. Facebook says it enforces its rules equally and doesn\u2019t consider politics in its decisions.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/facebook-politics-decision-making-documents-11635100195?mod=article_inline\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"icon document\" rel=\"noopener\">Continue Story \u2192<\/a><br \/>Facebook researchers have found that 1 in 8 of the app\u2019s users report engaging in compulsive use of social media that affects their sleep, work, parenting or relationships, and the problems were perceived by users to be worse on Facebook than any other major social-media platform, according to documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. The documents highlight the company\u2019s research into the possible negative impacts on the day-to-day lives of a broad swath of users. Facebook said it has built tools and controls to help people manage when and how they use its services.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/facebook-bad-for-you-360-million-users-say-yes-company-documents-facebook-files-11636124681?mod=article_inline\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"icon document\" rel=\"noopener\">Continue Story \u2192<\/a><br \/>About 40% of traffic to pages in 2018 went to those with content that was plagiarized or recycled, according to the company\u2019s internal reports. The researchers said the tactic is an effective way to build a large audience and has been used by foreign and domestic groups that post divisive content and peddle false information. \u201cThis is the basic game plan used by many bad actors,\u201d one researcher wrote. Facebook says it has taken steps to address the issues, including removing fake accounts and reducing distribution of unoriginal news reporting.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/facebook-stolen-content-copyright-infringement-facebook-files-11636493887?mod=article_inline\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"icon document\" rel=\"noopener\">Continue Story \u2192<\/a><br \/>Copyright \u00a92021 Dow Jones &#038; Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8<br \/>Copyright &copy; 2021 Dow Jones &#038; Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/the-facebook-files-11631713039\">source<\/a><\/p>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/the-facebook-files-11631713039 Facebook Inc. 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