Inside the Facebook Files
Today, we\u2019re bringing you another episode of Arbiters of Truth, our series on the online information ecosystem. We\u2019ll be talking about \u201cThe Facebook Files\u201d\u2014a series of stories by the Wall Street Journal about Facebook\u2019s failures to mitigate harms on its platform. There\u2019s a lot of critical reporting about Facebook out there, but what makes the Journal\u2019s series different is that it\u2019s based on documents from within the company itself\u2014memos from Facebook researchers, identifying problems based on hard data, proposing solutions that Facebook leadership then fails or refuses to implement and contradicts in public statements. One memo literally says, \u201cWe are not actually doing what we say we do publicly.\u201d
To discuss the Journal\u2019s reporting, Evelyn Douek and Quinta Jurecic spoke with Jeff Horwitz, a technology reporter at the paper who obtained the leaked documents and led the team reporting the Facebook Files. What was it like working on the series? What's his response to Facebook's pushback? And why is there so much discontent within the company?
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