NEW: Facebook has sold ads promoting anti-vaccine messages, comparing the US government's response to Covid-19 to Nazi Germany, casting doubt on the result of the 2020 election, and even pushing political violence.https://t.co/cF21oqFnaF @AC360 pic.twitter.com/xkin2muJ51

— Donie O'Sullivan (@donie) December 3, 2021

"These platforms, they're pulling at us, pulling us apart," says @BrianStelter on new revelations from the the Facebook papers.

"While Facebook gets richer, we all get poorer," he says. pic.twitter.com/oboCFCyQ8Q

— Reliable Sources (@ReliableSources) October 24, 2021

As the Facebook Papers show the platform's role in the Jan. 6 riot, it's clear that "we need reforms to disincentivize the viral spread of disinformation because … our democracy hangs in the balance," @JohnAvlon says. #RealityCheck pic.twitter.com/9ifsAblXrn

— CNN This Morning with Kasie Hunt (@CNNThisMorning) October 25, 2021

"The entire country was basically on fire." Facebook watched as Trump ignited hate across America https://t.co/jpVhCdhFmt

— TIME (@TIME) October 27, 2021

Trump’s PAC is spending $100k a week on Facebook ads, circumventing his ban: “Facebook allows the ads because Trump is not posting them personally through his suspended account & the ads do not speak in Trump’s ‘voice,’ according to a company spokeswoman.” https://t.co/1D55C6yh7H

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 30, 2021

A trove of leaked internal documents offer an unprecedented view of Facebook. Here’s what we’ve learned: https://t.co/O4lpc7Vd1r

— Tara Subramaniam (@tarasubramaniam) October 26, 2021

1. In my latest in @TheAtlantic, I show that evidence is strong (though not perfect) that Instagram contributed to the large and sudden rise in teen girls' depression that began around 2013. Strong enough for regulators to act now. The case is 4 stepshttps://t.co/4T5MrCb2ew

— Jonathan Haidt (@JonHaidt) November 21, 2021

"Facebook itself admitted [it] helped incite offline violence in Myanmar. Did you not think to yourself, 'This is not a company where I want to be playing a senior role,' a company that helped incite a genocide?"

My question to ex-FB exec @katieharbath: pic.twitter.com/v2kDvgV2LY

— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) October 26, 2021

New from the Facebook leaks, by @BrandyZadrozny:

Facebook staffers created a Trump-loving, Fox News-watching fake identity.

The account went wherever the algorithm told it to go.

It went full-on QAnon in two days.

Facebook told nobody about this.https://t.co/8XonN3glrV

— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) October 22, 2021

CNN's New Day Attacks Facebook By Running a Massive Star Wars-Esque Scroll Listing All of the Company's Misdeeds https://t.co/byBCyM2GD0

— Mediaite (@Mediaite) October 26, 2021

Scoop: In a post to staffers Saturday obtained by Axios, Facebook VP of global affairs Nick Clegg warned the company that worse coverage could be on the way: “We need to steel ourselves for more bad headlines in the coming days, I’m afraid.” https://t.co/ID8vZuWQT1

— Sara Fischer (@sarafischer) October 24, 2021

New tonight:

Leaked Facebook documents shed new light on how the Stop the Steal movement flourished on the platform in the weeks leading up to the Capitol attack.

w/@Sarah_Boxer @tarasubramaniam @claresduffy https://t.co/lKMwZ3Xu9P @AC360 pic.twitter.com/trVAKGCjmS

— Donie O'Sullivan (@donie) October 23, 2021

"Facebook's own employees are warning that something is very wrong in the way social media pumps up and profits off our divisions. We should listen, and then take action," @JohnAvlon says ahead of a whistleblower testimony at Capitol Hill. #RealityCheck pic.twitter.com/EUn7vwc72S

— CNN This Morning with Kasie Hunt (@CNNThisMorning) October 5, 2021

Interesting internal experiment here: FB set up new accounts, followed mainstream GOP figures, and got recommended QAnon content within a week https://t.co/jBFoIIFJIw via @vicenews

— Michael Learmonth (@learmonth) October 5, 2021

“Facebook, over and over again, has shown it chooses profit over safety,” says Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen. She believes the federal government should impose regulations and plans to testify before Congress this week. https://t.co/YoKIyorZzu pic.twitter.com/RWlk9QOwZu

— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) October 3, 2021

Roger McNamee: "Facebook's research said two thirds of the time that people join an extremist group on Facebook is because of a Facebook recommendation, which means Facebook radicalized about 2 million people into QAnon." https://t.co/i99QYVpmwp

— MSNBC (@MSNBC) September 26, 2021

Peter Thiel claimed Zuckerberg agreed to push "state-sanctioned conservatism" under Trump deal, book says "https://t.co/gHXjW4uco5

— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) September 20, 2021

On the eve of the 2020 election, troll farms were running vast page networks on FB targeting Christian, Black, & Native Americans. An internal report tracking the situation described it as "genuinely horrifying." Some of the pages remain two year later. https://t.co/Wa43f8rG0N

— Karen Hao (@_KarenHao) September 17, 2021

Facebook could provide real-time windows into what's popular on the platform.

But it has long resisted doing so — and new reports suggest it's afraid greater transparency will just make it look bad. https://t.co/7jN4VZI5Gk

— Axios (@axios) July 15, 2021

New book reveals how much Facebook knew about Russian election interference & how little the company did to stop it @sheeraf @ceciliakang discuss pic.twitter.com/AqW6o18JAy

— The Lead CNN (@TheLeadCNN) July 14, 2021

TL;dr: FB-owned CrowdTangle’s analytic tool showed that Facebook had increasingly become a right-wing cesspit. Rather than reflecting on what the data indicated, FB executives — ta-da! — broke up the CrowdTangle team. pic.twitter.com/Sw557UqF5E

— Greg Greene (@ggreeneva) July 14, 2021

The way to change Facebook isn't to patch policies or hire more contractors. It's to overhaul the core Newsfeed algorithms. I talked to @WalterIsaacson on @AmanpourCoPBS about how to do thishttps://t.co/2p9atbGdLh

— nxthompson (@nxthompson) November 28, 2020

Mark Zuckerberg told an all-staff meeting that Steve Bannon has not violated enough policies to be suspended from Facebook. The ex-Trump adviser suggested in a now-removed video that FBI Director Christopher Wray and Dr. Anthony Fauci should be beheaded https://t.co/pDbUtx7ZhM pic.twitter.com/PFf8WlMZmj

— Reuters (@Reuters) November 12, 2020

Facebook said tonight that a mix of "technical problems" and confusion among advertisers around its new political ad ban rules, caused issues affecting ad campaigns of both parties.https://t.co/I9RZs3QC2D

— Axios (@axios) October 30, 2020

"Facebook is really dropping the ball on how to respond to this moment and its causing a lot of harm." "Facebook's work has life or death consequences."
Former Facebook engineer speaks out about misinformation, hate speech on platform https://t.co/YaDGeFaJCl via @nbcnews

— Michelle Manafy (she/her) (@michellemanafy) October 7, 2020

The massive spread of disinformation about Biden came just hours after Facebook essentially blew off Biden’s concerns about disinformation being spread about him.
https://t.co/Qn42WgJvuy

— Mother Jones (@MotherJones) September 30, 2020

Facebook engineer quits, accusing the company of "profiting off hate" https://t.co/0qonYyQZ7W

— CBS News (@CBSNews) September 13, 2020

Facebook "is made by keeping people active and emotionally engaged in the platform," early Facebook investor Roger McNamee says. “There’s no content on earth that does that better than hate speech, disinformation and conspiracy theories.” https://t.co/oOXri0UB91

— MSNBC (@MSNBC) September 6, 2020

Breitbart would be demoted in News Feed for repeatedly publishing false news, but @Facebook’s Republican-dominated policy team, led by Joel Kaplan, intervened to prevent that from happening.https://t.co/mcNWlBaqAh

— Timothy Durigan (@timothydurigan) September 6, 2020

Facebook employees are furious with CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who admitted during a company-wide meeting that the company made an “operational mistake” by failing to remove a self-proclaimed militia group’s “call to arms” ahead of the Kenosha protest https://t.co/vU4lVAwogx

— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) August 28, 2020

Two men killed by gunman at Jacob Blake police shooting protest have been identified by authorities. https://t.co/ynlOcjRzPK

— NBC News (@NBCNews) August 29, 2020

Senior engineer collects internal evidence that shows Facebook was giving preferential treatment to prominent conservative accounts to help them remove fact-checks from their content. Puts it on the company's internal discussion board. Engineer is fired. https://t.co/lsGfAyMqbJ

— Jay Rosen (@jayrosen_nyu) August 7, 2020

This is an important story –> Facebook’s fact checkers have ruled claims in Trump ads are false — but no one is telling Facebook’s users https://t.co/ymFOWZDZ0M

— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) August 5, 2020

Ford Motor Co., Clorox, and Denny's are joining a parade of companies that have moved to halt advertising spending on Facebook because of how Facebook has handled speech on its platforms. https://t.co/URVrkW69tj

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) June 30, 2020

Breaking: Another Silicon Valley company takes a jab at Trump. Reddit is shutting down the pro-Trump forum r/The_Donald after years of complaints. https://t.co/xl2SB7cKlv

— Elizabeth Dwoskin (@lizzadwoskin) June 29, 2020

Facebook and Twitter say Trump's egregiously dishonest new video does not violate their policies. Here's a breakdown of how the video twists and truncates quotes from Biden, Ocasio-Cortez and Pelosi: https://t.co/F9lyTqOi1j

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) June 29, 2020

According to this ⁦@washingtonpost⁩ report, ⁦@Facebook⁩ wrote its rules to accommodate ⁦@realDonaldTrump⁩. https://t.co/YsK6ybkRbw

— Steve Herman (@W7VOA) June 28, 2020

More than 90 brands are halting advertising on Facebook in July in a campaign to force the company to crack down on harmful content.

Unilever is going further by doing so "through the end of the year" and extending its boycott to Twitter.
https://t.co/PdoOwXnN7f

— NPR (@NPR) June 27, 2020

Levi's and Dockers will be pausing all advertising on Facebook and Instagram through at least July: "Facebook must take actions to stop misinformation and hate speech."

Hershey's also announced that it'll be cutting advertising on Facebook. https://t.co/zY8glX52Zn

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) June 28, 2020

CEO Mark Zuckerberg told Facebook employees on Friday that the social network will review how it handles some of the most incendiary posts on its platform, including those by President Trump.https://t.co/69TrC2IDZx

— NPR (@NPR) June 6, 2020

Mark Zuckerberg tells Facebook employees that he’s standing by his decision to not take down President Trump’s posts in which he appears to call for violence against protesters. https://t.co/73QfcjWWOO

— NBC News (@NBCNews) June 2, 2020

Civil rights leaders went into a call with Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg tonight with low expectations. They were not disappointed. Mark didn't comprehend/accept history of voter suppression and that Trump's tweets could stoke violence against demonstrators. More to come

— Cecilia Kang (@ceciliakang) June 2, 2020

Facebook has never been a neutral platform—it is a company whose business model depends on monitoring its users, modifying and manipulating their behavior, and selling their attention to the highest bidder. https://t.co/mWdbMunJxa

— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) May 30, 2020

Mark Zuckerberg explains why Facebook is leaving up President Trump's posts https://t.co/K1wm4I2I01 pic.twitter.com/8Yx3RzkKe3

— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) May 30, 2020

1. This is a clarifying moment.

It shows exactly what Facebook is and who Zuckerberg is

Trump is violating Facebook's rules on election misinformation

Zuckerberg's response was to go on Fox News and defend Trump's right to undermine the integrity of the election

— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) May 28, 2020

Zuckerberg says Twitter is wrong to fact-check Trump https://t.co/nQnwPTLGt0

— Newsweek (@Newsweek) May 27, 2020

NEW: Facebook execs allegedly “knew for years” that a key advertising metric – the potential audience of ads – was "inflated" but failed to disclose or fix the issue, according to a class-action lawsuit

Sheryl Sandberg COO & David Wehner CFO are namedhttps://t.co/zkNuClthGU

— Hannah Murphy (@MsHannahMurphy) March 20, 2020

⁦@JoeBiden⁩ campaign blasts Facebook for allowing a manipulated video of Biden – that was shared by Trump and officials – to circulate this weekend. Scathing rebuke

Story on the way pic.twitter.com/eGFWoGJ3QS

— Cecilia Kang (@ceciliakang) March 9, 2020

The @JoeBiden campaign is putting Facebook on blast after a misleading video of Biden retweeted by Trump was labeled by Twitter as “manipulated,” but not by Facebook.@schultzohio going so far as to call Facebook’s lack of action a “national crisis.”

Full statement below: pic.twitter.com/SoWCAmFJ5q

— Sarah Mucha (@sarahmucha) March 9, 2020

1. In Decemeber, Facebook pledged to remove ANY content with misleading information about how to participate in the Census.

Now, the Trump campaign is running 1000+ Facebook ads promoting a fake 2020 Census

Facebook tells me it will take no actionhttps://t.co/YwXT2Y91EI

— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) March 5, 2020

A lesson. Submitting to Trump will only embolden bad behavior. They give cruelty but demand civility. It's all one way, bad faith transactions. America still doesn't get it.

How conservatives learned to wield power inside Facebook https://t.co/W4eLBuUG7y

— Wajahat Ali (@WajahatAli) February 20, 2020

Bloomberg’s money could end up playing some kind of role in blunting Trump’s Facebook disinformation onslaught regardless of who the nominee is.

@ThePlumLineGS has the details: https://t.co/4rnLq60iA3

— Washington Post Opinions (@PostOpinions) February 16, 2020

smart ?. I wrote a related piece for @JohnAvlon a few yrs ago. lack of friction for one as postage, printing and delivery time/costs add considerable friction. Real-time microtargeting over digital is kerosene along with the reach and velocity from social. https://t.co/o5szQUVUYR

— Jason Kint (@jason_kint) January 29, 2020

Facebook has finally taken down dozens of coordinated pro-Trump pages defending Robert Hyde https://t.co/ZvUvrSBytK that were first revealed in November by @BuzzFeedNews https://t.co/J4X94Dpzz6

— Jon Passantino (@passantino) January 18, 2020

Outrageous. This is Facebook’s idea of change? #MarkZuckerberg, you STILL take politicians’ money, STILL refuse to fact check their ads and STILL microtarget their lies to your +2 billion users. Mark, the demagogues of the world thank you!https://t.co/YbblXHC8LQ

— Sacha Baron Cohen (@SachaBaronCohen) January 9, 2020

“Facebook is the new cigarettes of society.” @Benioff succinctly sums up the dangers posed by social media @ReliableSources

— jerrymberger (@jerrymberger) December 29, 2019

‘If Facebook were around in the 1930s, it would have allowed Hitler to post 30-second ads’ — Listen to Sacha Baron Cohen slam the social media industry for facilitating the spread of hate, lies, and conspiracies pic.twitter.com/QinOnNRvxv

— NowThis Impact (@nowthisimpact) November 22, 2019

1/ An Epoch-Times linked outlet named "The BL" is building a labyrinthine network of pro-Trump Facebook groups administered by fake accounts to artificially inflate its reach, a clear violation of FB's rules. The outlet continues its behavior unabated. https://t.co/O3ZuSoeBC9

— snopes.com (@snopes) December 13, 2019

Toxic right-wing website The Daily Wire is manipulating Facebook to reach millions of people ahead of the 2020 election — and Facebook is letting them get away with it. @JuddLegum explains: pic.twitter.com/o23JJ6Oug5

— NowThis Impact (@nowthisimpact) December 2, 2019

Facebook responding to @SachaBaronCohen tonight:

“Sacha Baron Cohen misrepresented Facebook’s policies. Hate speech is actually banned on our platform. We ban people who advocate for violence and we remove anyone who praises or supports it…

— Donie O'Sullivan (@donie) November 22, 2019

"Facebook is incapable of vetting political ads effectively and consistently at the global scale," writes @sivavaid
https://t.co/5ZPxfSuGok

— New York Times Opinion (@nytopinion) November 3, 2019

1. How is The Daily Wire, the toxic right-wing site founded by pundit Ben Shapiro, more successful on Facebook than any other major publication?

It breaks the rules.

And Facebook is going to continue to let them do it. https://t.co/Rdhzbt4V4B

— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) October 28, 2019

Zuckerberg said Facebook helped Black Lives Matter. Activists disagree and are bracing for 2020.

Our latest:  https://t.co/jIYbNjwr04 @Blklivesmatter @aliciagarza pic.twitter.com/XyAC92PX7n

— Donie O'Sullivan (@donie) October 24, 2019

Here is @AOC's full questioning of Mark Zuckerberg.

"Could I run ads targeting Republicans in primaries saying that they voted for the Green New Deal?" pic.twitter.com/VrGQw7UzIW

— Erick Fernandez (@ErickFernandez) October 23, 2019

.@KatieCouric asks Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg: “How worried are you about your personal legacy, as a result of your association with this company?” pic.twitter.com/6IJhNYoZZx

— VANITY FAIR (@VanityFair) October 22, 2019

If we can lie in Facebook ads and get away with it, we know that campaign finance laws are not equipped to address online political advertising. My plan would modernize campaign finance law for the digital age. If you are ready to regulate political ads on the internet, sign up.

— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) October 15, 2019

Trump running an ad on Facebook this morning falsely claiming that Democrats have "finally admitted" they want to repeal the 2nd Amendment pic.twitter.com/9dARReiTdM

— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) October 21, 2019

"If you're a politician on Facebook, they say you can run a false ad," so Senator @ewarren did just that to prove a point. CNN's @donie reports https://t.co/Z9qkJk4QvG pic.twitter.com/GJJhy80klG

— CNN (@CNN) October 12, 2019

Facebook denied a request from Joe Biden's campaign to take down a video ad by President Donald Trump's reelection campaign that falsely accuses the former vice president of corruption for his role in Ukraine policy during the Obama administration. https://t.co/zMT97EMWyK

— CNN (@CNN) October 9, 2019

1. Until last week, Facebook's ad policies prohibited "false or misleading content"

Facebook quietly changed its policies last week and eliminated that language

Facebook tells me its policy is that Trump (and other political figures) CAN LIE IN PAID ADShttps://t.co/4aTevXJIwr

— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) October 3, 2019