The Facebook Papers are a massive set of Facebook internal documents that whistleblower Frances Haugen provided to Congress and news outlets around the world. These documents formed the basis of more than 100 news stories and counting, catalogued here.

Last updated on: November 24, 2021 3:00 PM ET

November 23, 2021

November 23, 2021

A leaked Facebook document shows 10 Instagram product principles instructing employees to ‘understand the root cause of people’s problems’

Topics:

Read Article
November 23, 2021

Facebook Grants Government of Afghanistan Limited Posting Rights

Topics: ,

Read Article

November 22, 2021

November 22, 2021

Facebook convinced poll panel to settle on a voluntary code

Topics: ,

Read Article

November 21, 2021

November 21, 2021

Facebook’s race-blind practices around hate speech came at the expense of Black users, new documents show

Topics: ,

Read Article

November 18, 2021

November 18, 2021

Hate speech in Myanmar continues to thrive on Facebook

Topics: ,

Read Article
November 18, 2021

Latinx Files: Facebook’s Latinx disinformation problem

Topics:

Read Article

November 17, 2021

November 17, 2021

Instagram impacts teen mental health in the West. What about everywhere else?

Topics: ,

Read Article
November 17, 2021

Revealed: the software that studies your Facebook friends to predict who may commit a crime

Topics:

Read Article

November 16, 2021

November 16, 2021

Facebook struggled with disinformation targeted at Latinos, leaked documents show

Topics: ,

Read Article
November 16, 2021

Lonely people spend much more time on Facebook than the average user, internal documents show

Topics:

Read Article

November 15, 2021

November 15, 2021

Facebook Asked Users What Content Was “Good” or “Bad for the World.” Some of the Results Were Shocking.

Topics:

Read Article
November 15, 2021

Why Facebook won’t let you control your own news feed

Topics: , ,

Read Article

November 13, 2021

November 13, 2021

Why Facebook keeps failing in Ethiopia

Topics: , ,

Read Article

November 12, 2021

November 12, 2021

Fifty percent of Facebook Messenger’s total voice traffic comes from Cambodia. Here’s why

Topics: ,

Read Article
November 12, 2021

In Facebook’s VR Headset, Racism and Other Abuses Showed Up ‘Like Clockwork’

Topics: ,

Read Article

November 11, 2021

November 11, 2021

Facebook’s latest crisis is the product of an employee revolt about how Mark Zuckerberg and the social network manage its real-world harm

Topics:

Read Article
November 11, 2021

Read a leaked 13-page Instagram report detailing creator concerns on topics like equity, discrimination, and support

Topics:

Read Article
November 11, 2021

Facebook told employees to avoid the words ‘discrimination’ and ‘bias’

Topics:

Read Article
November 11, 2021

Facebook Employees Found a Simple Way To Tackle Misinformation. They ‘Deprioritized’ It After Meeting With Mark Zuckerberg, Documents Show

Topics: ,

Read Article
November 11, 2021

Facebook Saw Spikes in Hate Speech in India After CAA Protests and During First Covid Lockdown

Topics: ,

Read Article

November 10, 2021

November 10, 2021

Leaked Documents Show that Facebook experimented with an advertising-free model to hook young adults onto the platform

Topics:

Read Article
November 10, 2021

Top tech candidates are anti-Facebook. It started long before the Facebook Papers.

Topics:

Read Article

November 9, 2021

November 9, 2021

Facebook employees are burnt out, frustrated, and worried the company is in a ‘failure state,’ leaked documents show

Topics:

Read Article
November 9, 2021

Facebook experimented with giving ‘power users’ even more political news content

Topics:

Read Article
November 9, 2021

Inside Facebook’s Struggles to Attract Creators and Their Young Fans

Topics: ,

Read Article
November 9, 2021

Facebook Allows Stolen Content to Flourish, Its Researchers Warned

Topics: ,

Read Article

November 8, 2021

November 8, 2021

How Facebook Is Stoking a Civil War in Ethiopia

Topics: ,

Read Article
November 8, 2021

Facebook Documents Accelerate EU Push to Regulate Social Media

Topics:

Read Article

November 5, 2021

November 5, 2021

Facebook’s parent company is also grappling with abuse on Workplace, its ‘private’ version of Facebook for businesses, leaked docs show

Topics: ,

Read Article
November 5, 2021

Is Facebook Bad for You? It Is for About 360 Million Users, Company Surveys Suggest

Topics: ,

Read Article

November 4, 2021

November 4, 2021

The Case To Reform The Share Button, According To Facebook’s Own Research

Topics:

Read Article
November 4, 2021

Internal documents show Facebook’s Meta-minded CTO, Andrew Bosworth, blaming hate-speech posts on ‘demand’ for such content

Topics:

Read Article
November 4, 2021

35 Internal Code Words Facebook Uses to Talk About Its Users and Tools

Topics:

Read Article
November 4, 2021

Facebook Papers Show a Company Locked in Zuckerberg’s Stranglehold

Topics: ,

Read Article

November 3, 2021

November 3, 2021

Here’s what happened when Facebook stopped protecting users — on purpose

Topics:

Read Article
November 3, 2021

Why Some People See More Disturbing Content on Facebook Than Others, According to Leaked Documents

Topics: ,

Read Article
November 3, 2021

The Facebook Papers Must Be Shared With Outlets Globally

Topics:

Read Article

November 1, 2021

November 1, 2021

Leaked ‘Confidential’ Facebook Doc Reveals Internal Rift Over Handling of Political Ads

Topics:

Read Article
November 1, 2021

Facebook Let an Islamophobic Conspiracy Theory Flourish in India Despite Employees’ Warnings

Topics: , ,

Read Article

October 30, 2021

October 30, 2021

Facebook Papers: How the company grapples with its climate change deniers

Topics:

Read Article

October 29, 2021

October 29, 2021

Documents reveal Facebook targeted children as young as 6 for consumer base

Topics:

Read Article

October 28, 2021

October 28, 2021

Facebook isn’t telling the whole story about its mental health research

Topics:

Read Article
October 28, 2021

Two brand-new Facebook accounts descended into toxic, divisive rabbit holes within weeks. Here’s how.

Topics: ,

Read Article
October 28, 2021

Facebook Faces Official Questions in India Over Policing of Hate Speech

Topics: ,

Read Article
October 28, 2021

Facebook told the White House to focus on the ‘facts’ about vaccine misinformation. Internal documents show it wasn’t sharing key data.

Topics: ,

Read Article
October 28, 2021

Misinformation online is bad in English. But it’s far worse in Spanish.

Topics: , ,

Read Article

October 27, 2021

October 27, 2021

America ‘On Fire’: Facebook Watched As Trump Ignited Hate

Topics: ,

Read Article
October 27, 2021

Likes, anger emojis and RSVPs: the math behind Facebook’s News Feed — and how it backfired

Topics:

Read Article
October 27, 2021

Facebook is having a tougher time managing vaccine misinformation than it is letting on, leaks suggest

Topics: ,

Read Article
October 27, 2021

How the 2019 Christchurch Massacre Changed Facebook Forever

Topics: ,

Read Article