Internal Alarm, Public Shrugs: Facebook’s Employees Dissect Its Election Role (Published 2021)
Company documents show that the social network’s employees repeatedly raised red flags about the spread of misinformation and conspiracies before and after the contested November vote.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/22/technology/facebook-election-misinformation.html
Sixteen months before last November’s presidential election, a researcher at Facebook described an alarming development. She was getting content about the conspiracy theory QAnon within a week of opening an experimental account, she wrote in an internal report.