Washington correspondent
The powerful social network with more than 3.5 billion users has been facing for several weeks a series of revelations on how the company systematically ignored the human, social and political consequences of its algorithms intended to capture as much as possible. attention of users.
These revelations are all the more devastating as they emanate from internal documents.
They were disclosed by a former employee, Frances Haugen, who quit Facebook last May with copies of tens of thousands of pages of flyers and confidential notes.
At first remaining anonymous, she had sent a number of them to the
Wall Street Journal
.
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Last September, the conservative American daily devoted a series of double pages to the revelations contained in these documents.
Published as "Facebook files", the series described the company as an opaque business, only
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