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Earlier this year, Meta Platforms Inc. quietly convened a war room of staffers to address a critical problem: virtually all of Facebook's top-ranked content was spammy, oversexualized or generally what the company classified as regrettable.
Meta’s accounting of the most popular content on Facebook continues to be a confusing mess to untangle..
Late last year, Mark Zuckerberg faced a choice: Comply with demands from Vietnams ruling Communist Party to censor anti-government dissidents or risk getting knocked offline in one of Facebooks most lucrative Asian markets.
Facebook researchers in 2019 created three dummy accounts to study the platform's technology for recommending content in the News Feed.
Insiders say Mark Zuckerberg, with his ironclad leadership of world's most powerful social media company, repeatedly chose business growth over public safety.