While Facebook claims to have made “considerable progress” with downgrading misinformation regarding COVID vaccines in users’ feeds, the internal company documents obtained by former Facebook product manager-turned-whistleblower raises pertinent questions about the platform’s business model and ethics. By Jisha Krishnan “Honestly, I wasn’t surprised. It has been an open secret,” says a self-confessed Facebook addict and techie based in Bengaluru, as we discuss ‘The Facebook Papers’. Thanks to the powerful collaboration among journalists from across the globe, the world is now privy to how the ...
