Internal Facebook Investigation Showed The Platform Increasing Division: Report
Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) knew its algorithms were serving up content that divided users, but did nothing to stop it, reports The Wall Street Journal.
Citing internal documents and people familiar with the effort, the WSJ reports that in 2018 the social media giant began looking into whether or not its algorithms were creating content that was divisive. The internal inquiry was prompted in part by the Cambridge Analytica scandal in which the now-defunct political consulting firm accessed information on 187 million Facebook users without their consent.
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