Read the Facebook Papers for Yourself

In the autumn of 2021, members of the U.S. Congress and lots of of Western journalists obtained entry to a set of inside Facebook paperwork. The trove of analysis experiences, proposals, displays, and worker conversations would type the inspiration for dozens of stories tales describing Facebook’s personal consciousness of the real-world harms that resulted from its relentless pursuit of its customers’ consideration.

Whistleblower Frances Haugen—a former member of the Civic Integrity staff on the firm now known as Meta—shared the cache of greater than 1,300 paperwork that will come to be recognized collectively because the Facebook Papers. She would go on to testify earlier than Congress as to their implications. Lawmakers would grill Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri about them as effectively.

In November 2021, Gizmodo partnered with a bunch of unbiased consultants to evaluate, redact, and publish the Facebook Papers. This committee serves to advise and monitor our work and facilitate the accountable disclosure of the best variety of paperwork within the public curiosity potential. We imagine within the worth of open entry to those supplies. Our collective aim is to reduce any potential harms that might consequence from the disclosure of sure strategies by which Meta tackles delicate points like intercourse trafficking, disinformation, and voter manipulation. The paperwork, which haven’t beforehand been printed, moreover comprise each private and personal particulars about low-level Facebook workers and most of the customers included within the firm’s research and inside discussions. The dangers related to publishing this info outweighs the worth of disclosure.

That evaluate committee contains Laura Edelson, PhD candidate in laptop science at New York University; Damon McCoy, affiliate professor in laptop science and engineering at NYU; Daniel Kahn Gillmor, a senior workers technologist with the American Civil Liberties Union’s Speech, Privacy, and Technology division; Pri Bengani, senior analysis fellow at Columbia University’s Tow Center for Digital Journalism; Ethan Zuckerman, affiliate professor of public coverage on the University of Massachusetts, Amherst; and Michael Zimmer, affiliate professor in laptop science at Marquette University.

This web page will function a desk of contents organizing each doc Gizmodo has printed to this point together with a report of after we printed them. We have categorized the paperwork by matter, redacted and reviewed them a number of occasions, and launched them in batches. Additional paperwork, which require larger scrutiny for privateness or safety causes, shall be added sooner or later.

Election 2020 Documents

Papers About the Jan. 6 Capitol Attack

Papers Describing the Election-Related Task Force Monitoring “Complex Financial Organizations”

Papers Describing Election-Related Pages, Posts, Etc.

Internal Election-Related Research

Internal Election-Related Proposals

Internal Election-Related Explainers

Election-Related Platform and Product Updates

Miscellaneous Papers

April 18, 2022:

Twenty-eight paperwork referring to the 2020 presidential election, Donald Trump, and the Jan. 6 Capitol riot have been printed.