Five key takeaways from the leaked Facebook documents
Facebook has been struggling to attract younger users for more than a decade, and some senior employees are alarmed over the company’s inability to keep teens engaged. When asked by analysts about growth prospects, Facebook executives frequently paint a rosier picture than the one depicted by internal research, a whistle-blower alleges.
Those are just some of the findings outlined in a cache of disclosures made to the US Securities and Exchange Commission by Frances Haugen, a former Facebook product manager, and provided to Congress in redacted form by her legal counsel. A consortium of 17 US news organizations, including Bloomberg, has obtained the redacted versions received by Congress.