Senior Facebook executives were warned that the social network’s algorithms “exploit the human brain’s attraction to divisiveness” in an internal presentation from 2018 that was largely ignored, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal. The story mostly looks back at some of the twists and turns inside Facebook over the past few years as it grappled with its battered reputation after the...
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