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Facebook hides a report

How a botched attempt at self-regulation set back the conversation around misinformation

Casey Newton
Aug 24, 2021
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Today, let’s look at the controversy surrounding Facebook’s latest effort to regulate itself through the strategic release of platform data. There are at least two important questions for us here, but in much of the discussion I’ve read so far they have been obscured by reporting on what Facebook attempted to cover up.

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