The Facebook Papers: How Meta Failed to Fight Against American Climate Denial
The company had made efforts to insulate its users against the health-related hoaxes that had engulfed its platform as the pandemic began. Some seven million posts were axed between April and June, which did not go unnoticed. The apparenthad responded to the global pandemic had, instead of seeming a success, merely cast a bitter light on its handling of climate change.
,” the company now seemed to be squarely in the business of deciding which areas of science deserved protecting, and which could be deemed baselessshow that as late as Fall 2021, Facebook workers struggled to justify the company’s position on the science of the warming planet, many aware that the few policies it did have in place were accomplishing next to nothing. One document shows the concerns of an employee who tried simply searching for “climate change” in the Facebook app.
Facebook did not respond to a request for comment on the documents and its efforts on climate change misinformation., Gizmodo is publishing 18 documents that shed light on the internal discussions within Facebook on climate change. The papers, only a handful of which have ever been shown to the public, include a number of candid conversations among mid- and high-level employees; researchers, managers, and engineers with appreciably different views on the company’s moral obligations.
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