TechScape: Was this the worst week in Facebook’s history?
Up for discussion in the Guardian tech newsletter: Zuckerberg forced to deal with crashes, leaks and destabilising democracy'
What a week for Facebook, and it's only Wednesday.
After a month or so of bad news for the company, during which there have been damaging revelations the company knew Instagram was harming the mental health of teenagers and that Facebook knew changes to its news feed had made it more polarising in the lead-up to the 6 January storming of the Capitol. The former led Facebook to pause a plan to roll out a version of Instagram for kids.
The buck stops" with the founder and chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg.
Facebook knows its systems lead teenagers to anorexia-related content.
The company had to break the glass" and turn back on safety settings after the 6 January Washington riots.
Facebook intentionally targets teenagers and children under 13.
Monday's outage that brought down Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp meant that for more than five hours Facebook could not destabilise democracies".
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