Facebook froze as anti-vaccine comments swarmed users
Facebook's own documents reveal how comments on posts are a hotbed for anti-vaccine messages. But when a researcher suggested disabling comments on vaccine posts, that idea was ignored.
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Facebook's own documents reveal how comments on posts are a hotbed for anti-vaccine messages. But when a researcher suggested disabling comments on vaccine posts, that idea was ignored.
Facebook said Apple's ban would have had 'potentially severe consequences to the business,' but the company knew about the issue a year before, codenaming it 'HEx,' or 'human exploitation.'
Some Facebook employees use these internal "badge posts" to voice their qualms with the company, according to newly revealed "Facebook Papers."
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Facebook employees attempting to work on the outage have had their digital badges stop working