Kudos to the WSJ for running this expose series. Yes, this article could be a little clearer with dates and the timeline of what's being reported, but the point

Kudos to the WSJ for running this expose series. Yes, this article could be a little clearer with dates and the timeline of what's being reported, but the point stands regardless. Some choice quotes from the article: > Mr. Zuckerberg has long espoused the belief that Facebook’s role connecting people makes it a tool to help solve the world’s problems. Former executives say that optimism left him and his company repeatedly ill-prepared when people used the platform in ways it didn’t anticipate... [Former FB VP Brian Boland] credits Mr. Zuckerberg with getting Facebook to work quickly on health initiatives during the pandemic but said his focus on connecting people created a blind spot for company leaders. “There was not a lot of discussion in our circles of, ‘Hey, are people propagating harmful messages on the platform?’ Surely Zuckerberg knows this is his blind spot by now? Isn't this the story of Facebook for at least the last five years? > Employees improvised, and by late February, two Facebook data scientists came up with a rough way to scan for what they called “vaccine hesitant” comments. They wrote in memos that “vaccine hesitancy in comments is rampant” — twice as prevalent as in posts. One of the scientists pointed out the company’s ability to detect the content in comments was “bad in English, and basically non-existent elsewhere.” From the other writing / context in the article, this quote is referring to February 2021! After nearly a year into the pandemic. Facebook should have dedicated an entire team to not only tackling this issue. I wonder if medical workers can / will sue FB for negligence. > In August, the company said it had removed 20 million items that violated its Covid policies. This feels very double-speak to me. 20 million might seem like a lot, but at FB's scale, it's probably very small. Do they have an estimate of the total amount of content that violates it's Covid-19 policies?