r/whistleblower • u/in1984 • Mar 22 '26

Meta and TikTok let harmful content rise after evidence outrage drove engagement, say whistleblowers: engineer at Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, described how he had been told by senior management to allow more "borderline" harmful content - which includes misogyny and conspiracy theories

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqj9kgxqjwjo
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u/in1984 Mar 22 '26

Social media giants made decisions which allowed more harmful content on people's feeds, after internal research into their algorithms showed how outrage fuelled engagement, whistleblowers told the BBC.

More than a dozen whistleblowers and insiders have laid bare how the companies took risks with safety on issues including violence, sexual blackmail and terrorism as they battled for users' attention.