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A Look Back on 2021: Would Facebook Lie to You? (Probably)

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Internal documents reveal that facebook executives discouraged teams from clamping down on misinformation campaigns or making tweaks to face books algaritm. They were concerned that if they made those changes, tey would add fuel to the fire and give conservatives more quotum quotes. The desire to avoid looking like a biased platform in the executive's minds, outweighed any desire to avoid spreading harm.

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