Frances Haugen

Demoting Low-Quality Content in the News Feed Would Make Conservatives Angry, Employees SaidScreenshot: GizmodoAfter surveying users about what kinds of news they found most informative, Facebook’s own News Team proposed ignoring the results of the poll by continuing to boost publishers who posted clickbait, fake news, and things generally no one wanted to read, according to an internal presentation. Users had deemed that type material of low quality. Why did Facebook’s own employees make that recommendation? Because they…

Photo: Jeff Chiu (AP)A personal injury lawsuit filed in California federal court on Monday alleges Instagram’s parent company Meta purposely crafted products to addict young users, steering one 11-year-old girl down a years-long path of physical and psychological harm.The case, brought by the Social Media Victims Law Center on behalf of now-19-year-old Alexis Spence, asserts Instagram “consistently and knowingly” targeted its product at young children while at the same time ignoring warnings internally about its worsening…