Facebook Faulted by Staff Over Jan. 6 Insurrection

Facebook Faulted by Staff Over Jan. 6 Insurrection: 'Abdication'

Employees and the company's own research highlight ways Facebook failed to police its platforms ahead of the siege on the Capitol.

How Facebook played a role in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot

A trove of internal documents turned over to the SEC provides new details of the social media platform's role in fomenting the storming of the US Capitol.

January 6 insurrection and Facebook: Internal docs paint a damning ...

Just days after insurrectionists stormed the Capitol on January 6th, Facebook's Chief Operational Officer Sheryl Sandberg downplayed her company's role in what ...

Facebook Hosted Surge of Misinformation and Insurrection Threats ...

A ProPublica/Washington Post analysis of Facebook posts, internal company documents and interviews, provides the clearest evidence yet that ...

How the 'Stop the Steal' movement outwitted Facebook ahead ... - NPR

The presidential election may have passed without major incident, but in its wake, "angry vitriol and a slew of conspiracy theories" were ...

Amid the Capitol riot, Facebook faced its own insurrection - AP News

WASHINGTON (AP) — As supporters of Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6th, battling police and forcing lawmakers into hiding, ...

Inside Facebook's struggle to contain insurrectionists' posts - Politico

Facebook's rules left giant holes for U.S. election falsehoods to metastasize. On the day of the Capitol riot, employees began pulling ...

Facebook Faulted by Staff Over Jan. 6 Insurrection: 'Abdication'

As rioters breached barricades and bludgeoned police with flagpoles before storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, some employees at Facebook ...

Facebook missed weeks of warning signs over Capitol attack ...

Materials provided by Frances Haugen to media outlets shine light on how company apparently stumbled into 6 January.

Facebook whistleblower documents offer new revelations about Jan ...

Supporters of President Donald Trump gather outside the Capitol in Washington prior to breaching security in protest of the presidential ...

Ex-Facebook manager alleges the social network fed the Capitol riot

The whistleblower, Frances Haugen, asserted in an interview with 60 Minutes that Facebook repeatedly made decisions that benefited the ...

Facebook faced its own insurrection amid Capitol riot

As supporters of Donald Trump stormed the US Capitol on Jan. 6, battling police and forcing lawmakers into hiding, an insurrection of a different kind was ...

What the Jan. 6 probe found out about social media, but didn't report

The Jan. 6 committee's 845-page report offered few details of social media's role in the Capitol riot. Transcripts and an unreleased memo ...

Facebook Faulted by Staff Over Jan. 6 Insurrection: 'Abdication ...

Facebook Knows It Was Used To Help Incite The Capitol Insurrection

An internal task force found that Facebook failed to take appropriate action against the Stop the Steal movement ahead of the Jan. 6 Capitol ...

How Facebook is Misleading the Public About Its Role in January 6

On Sunday, Facebook Vice President of Policy and Global Affairs Nick Clegg pushed back on CNN's Brian Stelter when the host of Reliable ...

Facebook's Employees Dissect Its Election Role - The New York Times

Company documents show that the social network's employees repeatedly raised red flags about the spread of misinformation and conspiracies ...

Facebook Post Misleads on Bipartisan Capitol Attack Report and ...

A bipartisan group of senators released a report on the security and intelligence failures related to the Jan. 6 attack on the US Capitol.

Jan. 6 Committee failed to hold social media companies to account ...

It was a “real missed opportunity,” Anika Collier Navaroli, a former Twitter employee turned whistleblower who gave evidence to the committee, ...

Don't let Facebook off the hook for Jan. 6 - The Hill

Why is it that a company that boasts sophisticated A.I. technology and more than 40000 safety and security workers continually fails to stop ...