Facebook grappling with the major crisis from Cambridge Analytica. The main American media - 17 in all - publish the so-called 'Facebook Papers' that reveal the secrets of Mark Zuckerberg's social network. The new documents, more than 10,000 pages, offer an insight into what is happening within the company and its decision-making process. The findings include employees' ignored alarms of hate speech and disinformation, as well as their demands to stop American politicians and celebrities from posting anything they wanted to social media in spite of compliance with policies. The documents also reveal employees' appeal to stop posts inciting violence in high-risk countries such as Ethiopia, but also reports of human trafficking in 2018.
The documents reveal how Facebook's services have been used to spread religious hatred in India: the research conducted within the social network has in fact highlighted how the anti-Islam material on the platform is widespread and how the contents that incited the 'hatred and violence were particularly widespread in February 2020, coinciding with the tensions that erupted in New Delhi during which 53 people died.
Among the findings also those reported by the Washington Post citing some sources and concerning Zuckerberg directly.
The CEO would in fact have bowed to the request of the Communist Party of Vietnam to censor anti-government dissidents, also because not doing so would have entailed the risk of being expelled from the country.