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Broken Code: Inside Facebook and the Fight to Expose Its Harmful Secrets

Jeff Horwitz

Jeff Horwitz traces how Facebook employees measured harms from ranking, misinformation, and uneven safety work, and how leaders responded before the Facebook Files made those debates public.

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12 parts, about 31 minutes to read.

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Author
Jeff Horwitz
Parts
12 parts
Reading time
about 31 minutes
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What the summary covers

  1. A reporting system that stopped listening2 min
  2. The election exposes a problem2 min
  3. Growth becomes the governing system2 min
  4. The limits placed on repair4 min
  5. Bad publishers master the machinery2 min
  6. Civic work meets global and political limits4 min
  7. Research that did not fit the public story2 min
  8. The unequal rulebook2 min
  9. Where the platform mattered most2 min
  10. Emergency brakes for the 2020 election2 min
  11. Evidence leaves the company3 min
  12. The Facebook Files and what followed4 min

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