
The Wall Street Journal has already published a series of stories based on some of these internal reports. The redacted versions have been reviewed by a consortium of news organizations, including WIRED. The documents were disclosed to the Securities and Exchange Commission and were provided to Congress in redacted form by Haugen’s legal counsel.

And she had gathered thousands of pages of internal documents-now collectively known as The Facebook Papers-to prove it. It had long ignored the warnings of its own researchers about the platform’s potential harms. In her nearly two years at Facebook, Haugen said, she had consistently seen the company prioritize growth over all else, to the detriment of its users and society at large.

On October 5, a former member of Facebook’s civic misinformation team named Frances Haugen testified before Congress.
