вЂњPeople bring up over and over again this idea that having both those functions tied to the same group is dangerous because they have different interests,вЂќ Haugen said in a virtual briefing arranged by her public relations team with POLITICO and other news outlets on Oct. A similar firewall exists at Google, where the heads of the companyвЂ™s content and public policy teams answer to different executives. ThatвЂ™s different from other social media companies such as Twitter, which separates its вЂњtrust and safetyвЂќ team - a group that handles difficult questions around online speech - from its policy team, which interacts directly with governments around the world. In message board conversations dating back to 2019, Facebook employees took particular issue with one aspect of the companyвЂ™s internal structure: The teams charged with writing and enforcing FacebookвЂ™s content rules answer to Kaplan, the companyвЂ™s vice president of global public policy. And CEO Mark Zuckerberg has gotten personally involved in dictating how content moderation will operate at the company, according to the document and several internal posts. KaplanвЂ™s team intervened to protect right-wing figures such as provocateur Charlie Kirk, the conservative publication Breitbart and activists Diamond and Silk from consequences for violating FacebookвЂ™s policies against misinformation, according to the 2020 document, excerpts of which previously appeared this year in BuzzFeed News. KaplanвЂ™s public policy team was one of the key groups overseeing XCheck.Д«ut the teamвЂ™s influence extends beyond that. The Facebook app logo is displayed on an iPad next to a picture of the Facebook logo on an iPhone on Augin London, England. This collection does not include all the files Haugen captured, and POLITICO expects to publish further stories as more documents become available. The group of media outlets coordinated on an embargo date of Monday to ensure enough time for reporters to review thousands of documents. The documents were previously obtained by The Wall Street Journal, but our coverage provides new revelations from the files. The consortium of media outlets has reviewed the redacted versions received by Congress, documents that black out the names of many lower-level employees. The disclosures were submitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission and provided to Congress in redacted form by HaugenвЂ™s legal counsel. The Facebook Papers include company research, internal message board threads, emails, project memos, strategy plans and presentations that Haugen captured by snapping photos of her computer screen.

POLITICO and 16 other American news organizations are publishing stories based on the Facebook Papers - internal documents taken by whistleblower Frances Haugen before leaving the company.

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