More Insider Information Surfaces in Claims Against Facebook

On Friday, a group of 17 U.S. news organizations began publishing a series of stories called the ‘Facebook Papers’. The articles are based on hundreds of internal company documents which were included in disclosures made to the securities and exchange commission and provided to Congress in redacted form by Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen’s legal council. Coverage on the matter includes stories about how coordinated groups on the social media platform sow discord and violence, including on January 6th, as well as Facebook’s challenges moderating content in some non-English speaking countries and how human traffickers use the platform to exploit people.

Members of a Senate subcommittee have called for CEO Mark Zuckerberg to provide testimony in the case and on Friday another former Facebook employee anonymously filed a complaint against the company to the SEC with allegations similar to Haugen’s. Facebook has tried to discredit Haugen saying “at the heart of these stories is a premise which is false, yes, we’re a business and we make profit, but the idea that we do so at the expense of people’s safety or wellbeing misunderstands where our own commercial interests lie.”