Is Facebook Trying to Be Sure of These Things?

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The company came to realize that they were creating ame. Realized we could seethis in the documents. They were creating perverse incentives for people to create angrier content. And they didn't change it. As you note, they er canimated some tweaks around the edges,. But they weren't really willing to give up on the benefits for usage tha, heavy engagement based ranking allowed for.

Facebook kicked off the week with an outage and followed that up today with a whistleblower testifying before Congress. The Wall Street Journal’s Jeff Horwitz explains how the company may have misled the public about the dangers of its social networks.

Today’s show was produced by Will Reid, engineered by Efim Shapiro, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and edited and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.

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