Facebook Papers Directory
In the fall of 2021, members of the U.S. Congress and hundreds of Western journalists obtained access to a collection of internal Facebook documents. The trove of research reports, proposals, presentations, and employee conversations would form the foundation for dozens of news stories describing Facebook’s own awareness of the real-world harms that resulted from its relentless pursuit of its users’ attention.
Whistleblower Frances Haugen—a former member of the Civic Integrity team at the company now called Meta—shared the cache of more than 1,300 documents that would come to be known collectively as the Facebook Papers. She would go on to testify before Congress as to their implications. Lawmakers would grill Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri about them as well.
In November 2021, Gizmodo partnered with a group of independent experts to review, redact, and publish the Facebook Papers. This committee serves to advise and monitor our work and facilitate the responsible disclosure of the greatest number of documents in the public interest possible. We believe in the value of open access to these materials. Our collective goal is to minimize any potential harms that could result from the disclosure of certain methods by which Meta tackles sensitive issues like sex trafficking, disinformation, and voter manipulation. The documents, which have not previously been published, additionally contain both personal and private details about low-level Facebook employees and many of the users included in the company’s studies and internal discussions. The risks associated with publishing this information outweighs the value of disclosure.
That review committee includes Laura Edelson, PhD candidate in computer science at New York University; Damon McCoy, associate professor in computer science and engineering at NYU; Daniel Kahn Gillmor, a senior staff technologist with the American Civil Liberties Union’s Speech, Privacy, and Technology division; Pri Bengani, senior research fellow at Columbia University’s Tow Center for Digital Journalism; Ethan Zuckerman, associate professor of public policy at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst; and Michael Zimmer, associate professor in computer science at Marquette University.
This page will serve as a table of contents organizing every document Gizmodo has published to date along with a record of when we published them. We have categorized the documents by topic, redacted and reviewed them multiple times, and released them in batches. Additional documents, which require greater scrutiny for privacy or security reasons, will be added in the future.
Papers About the Jan. 6 Capitol Attack
Papers Describing the Election-Related Task Force Monitoring “Complex Financial Organizations”
Papers Describing Election-Related Pages, Posts, Etc.
Internal Election-Related Research
Internal Election-Related Proposals
Internal Election-Related Explainers
Election-Related Platform and Product Updates
Miscellaneous Papers
Ranking-Related Explainers
Ranking-Related Platform and Product Updates
Ranking-Related Proposals
Papers Discussing “Demotions” in Feeds
Papers Discussing “Meaningful Social Interactions” (MSI)
Miscellaneous Papers
Teens and Kids Documents
Content Enforcement Docs
Documents Mapping out Intensity of User Experiences to Certain Violating Content
Content Appeal Rates by Country and Types of Appeals
Strike Thresholds for Various Harmful Content
Research Discussing ‘Soft Actions” to Address Violating Content
Civic Integrity Docs
Polarization Documents
Ads Documents
Hate Speech Documents
Changelog:
May 19, 2022: Added two civic integrity documents, 10 hate speech documents, three documents about ads, and one document about polarization.
May 2, 2022: 37 documents relating to the Facebook’s ranking practices were published.
April 18, 2022: 28 documents relating to the 2020 presidential election, Donald Trump, and the Jan. 6 Capitol riot were published.
October 18, 2022: Two documents related to the 2020 elections, two documents related to rankings, 14 documents related to the News Feed, and 16 documents related to climate change were published.
January 12, 2023: Added 18 documents related to Covid-19 policies and Covid-19 misinformation.
February 14, 2023: Added 16 documents related to Kids’ and Teens’ engagement on Facebook and Instagram, and how the apps affect them.
February 27, 2023: Added 12 documents related to content takedowns, user attitudes to enforcement, and Facebook’s strikes policy.
April 6, 2023: Added three documents related to content enforcement and five documents related to civil integrity rules.
Check back for updates.
In the fall of 2021, members of the U.S. Congress and hundreds of Western journalists obtained access to a collection of internal Facebook documents. The trove of research reports, proposals, presentations, and employee conversations would form the foundation for dozens of news stories describing Facebook’s own awareness of the real-world harms that resulted from its relentless pursuit of its users’ attention.
Whistleblower Frances Haugen—a former member of the Civic Integrity team at the company now called Meta—shared the cache of more than 1,300 documents that would come to be known collectively as the Facebook Papers. She would go on to testify before Congress as to their implications. Lawmakers would grill Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri about them as well.
In November 2021, Gizmodo partnered with a group of independent experts to review, redact, and publish the Facebook Papers. This committee serves to advise and monitor our work and facilitate the responsible disclosure of the greatest number of documents in the public interest possible. We believe in the value of open access to these materials. Our collective goal is to minimize any potential harms that could result from the disclosure of certain methods by which Meta tackles sensitive issues like sex trafficking, disinformation, and voter manipulation. The documents, which have not previously been published, additionally contain both personal and private details about low-level Facebook employees and many of the users included in the company’s studies and internal discussions. The risks associated with publishing this information outweighs the value of disclosure.
That review committee includes Laura Edelson, PhD candidate in computer science at New York University; Damon McCoy, associate professor in computer science and engineering at NYU; Daniel Kahn Gillmor, a senior staff technologist with the American Civil Liberties Union’s Speech, Privacy, and Technology division; Pri Bengani, senior research fellow at Columbia University’s Tow Center for Digital Journalism; Ethan Zuckerman, associate professor of public policy at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst; and Michael Zimmer, associate professor in computer science at Marquette University.
This page will serve as a table of contents organizing every document Gizmodo has published to date along with a record of when we published them. We have categorized the documents by topic, redacted and reviewed them multiple times, and released them in batches. Additional documents, which require greater scrutiny for privacy or security reasons, will be added in the future.
Papers About the Jan. 6 Capitol Attack
Papers Describing the Election-Related Task Force Monitoring “Complex Financial Organizations”
Papers Describing Election-Related Pages, Posts, Etc.
Internal Election-Related Research
Internal Election-Related Proposals
Internal Election-Related Explainers
Election-Related Platform and Product Updates
Miscellaneous Papers
Ranking-Related Explainers
Ranking-Related Platform and Product Updates
Ranking-Related Proposals
Papers Discussing “Demotions” in Feeds
Papers Discussing “Meaningful Social Interactions” (MSI)
Miscellaneous Papers
Teens and Kids Documents
Content Enforcement Docs
Documents Mapping out Intensity of User Experiences to Certain Violating Content
Content Appeal Rates by Country and Types of Appeals
Strike Thresholds for Various Harmful Content
Research Discussing ‘Soft Actions” to Address Violating Content
Civic Integrity Docs
Polarization Documents
Ads Documents
Hate Speech Documents
Changelog:
May 19, 2022: Added two civic integrity documents, 10 hate speech documents, three documents about ads, and one document about polarization.
May 2, 2022: 37 documents relating to the Facebook’s ranking practices were published.
April 18, 2022: 28 documents relating to the 2020 presidential election, Donald Trump, and the Jan. 6 Capitol riot were published.
October 18, 2022: Two documents related to the 2020 elections, two documents related to rankings, 14 documents related to the News Feed, and 16 documents related to climate change were published.
January 12, 2023: Added 18 documents related to Covid-19 policies and Covid-19 misinformation.
February 14, 2023: Added 16 documents related to Kids’ and Teens’ engagement on Facebook and Instagram, and how the apps affect them.
February 27, 2023: Added 12 documents related to content takedowns, user attitudes to enforcement, and Facebook’s strikes policy.
April 6, 2023: Added three documents related to content enforcement and five documents related to civil integrity rules.
Check back for updates.
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