Facebook Says Wall Street Journal Allegations Are ‘Mischaracterisations,’ Confer ‘False Motives’
Fb on Saturday slammed a Wall Road Journal collection of articles concerning the social media firm’s platform as containing “deliberate mischaracterisations” and mentioned the articles “conferred egregiously false motives to Fb’s management and staff.”
The Wall Road Journal, citing a evaluation of inner firm paperwork that included analysis studies, on-line worker discussions and drafts of displays to senior administration, mentioned that though Fb researchers have recognized “the platform’s in poor health results,” the corporate failed to repair them.
The Wall Road Journal articles say that Fb exempted high-profile customers from some or all of its guidelines, performed down the unfavorable results on younger customers of its Instagram app, made modifications to its algorithm that made the platform “angrier,” and had a weak response to alarms raised by staff over how the platform is utilized in creating international locations by human traffickers.
Nick Clegg, Fb’s vp of world affairs, writing in a weblog submit, mentioned the Wall Road Journal’s tales “contained deliberate mischaracterisations of what we are attempting to do, and conferred egregiously false motives to Fb’s management and staff.”
Clegg known as “simply plain false” an allegation that “Fb conducts analysis after which systematically and willfully ignores it if the findings are inconvenient for the corporate.”
Fb, Clegg mentioned, understands the “important accountability that comes with working a world platform” and takes it severely, however “we essentially reject this mischaracterisation of our work and impugning of the corporate’s motives.”
Clegg defended Fb’s dealing with of posts on the COVID-19 vaccine and mentioned that the “intersection between social media and well-being” stays an evolving difficulty within the analysis group.
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