15 Facts About Facebook Papers

In 2021, an internal document leak from the company then known as Facebook showed it was aware of harmful societal effects from its platforms.

In mid September 2021, The Wall Street Journal began publishing articles on Facebook Papers based on internal documents from unknown provenance.

Files show that Facebook Papers has been conducting internal research of how Instagram affects young users for the past three years.

Facebook Papers published some of its internal research on September 29,2021, saying these reports mischaracterized the purpose and results of its research.

Files show that Facebook formed a team to study preteens, set a three year goal to create more products for this demographic, and commissioned strategy papers about the long-term business prospects of attracting the preteen demographic.

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An internal memo seen by the Washington Post revealed that Facebook Papers has been aware of hate speech and calls for violence against groups like Muslims and Kashmiris, including posts of photos of piles of dead Kashmiri bodies with glorifying captions on its platform in India.

Documents reveal Facebook Papers has responded to these incidents by removing posts which violate their policy, but has not made any substantial efforts to prevent repeat offenses.

New York Times pointed to internal discussions where employees raised concerns that Facebook Papers was spreading content about the QAnon conspiracy theory more than a year before the 2020 United States elections.

In 2015, in addition to the Like button on posts, Facebook Papers introduced a set of other emotional reaction options: love, haha, yay, wow, sad and angry.

The Washington Post reported that for three years, Facebook Papers's algorithms promoted posts that received the 'angry' reaction from its users, based on internal analysis showing that such posts lead to five times more engagement than posts with regular likes.

Years later, Facebook Papers's researchers pointed out that posts with 'angry' reactions were much more likely to be toxic, polarizing, fake or low quality.

In 2018, Facebook Papers overhauled its News Feed algorithm, implementing a new algorithm which favored "Meaningful Social Interations" or "MSI".

Politico quotes several Facebook Papers staff expressing concerns about the company's willingness and ability to respond to damage caused by the platform.

In 2021, Facebook Papers developed a new strategy for addressing harmful content on their site, implementing measures which were designed to reduce and suppress the spread of movements that were deemed hateful.

Internal engineers and researchers within Facebook Papers have estimated that their AI has only been able to detect and remove 0.