Facebook Executives Shut Down Efforts to Make the Site Less Divisive
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Facebook Executives Shut Down Efforts to Make the Site Less Divisive

Updated: 7 Sep 2020
Facebook Executives Shut Down Efforts to Make the Site Less Divisive
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wsj.com
The social-media giant internally studied how it polarizes users and how it might address the resulting harms, then largely shelved the research.
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Facebook’s algorithm sows division and its ads policy allows politicians to lie without consequence, turning the platform into a disinformation-for-profit machine. Refusing to change these policies is eroding our democracy—and it will only get worse.
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