Could Facebook’s ‘North Star’ see the platform heading south?

Zuckerberg’s inner circle, that boosted its user base at all costs, may harm the company’s reputation

20 September 2021 - 19:42 By Parmy Olson

How do you add guardrails into a product that was built for constant interaction? A deluge of documents leaked out of Facebook led to bombshell reports in The Wall Street Journal last week highlighting harms — from unfair treatment of users to human trafficking — that the company partly ignored and then hid from public view. Facebook pushed back on the reports at the weekend, saying they didn’t tell the whole picture. ..

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