Public-Private Coalition Works to Release Facebook Papers – Government Technology

(TNS) — Associate Professor of Public Policy, Information and Communication at the University of Massachusetts Amherst Ethan Zuckerman is partnering with Gizmodo alongside other organizations and universities to make the Facebook Papers public.The Facebook Papers were leaked by whistleblower and former Facebook product manager Frances Haugen, who acquired stacks of documents including memos, chat logs and hidden research. In this, she hoped to convince the federal government that Facebook is deeply flawed, boosting hate, misinformation and political controversy, which the company knows but hides, according to The Associated Press.The documents were first published by the Wall Street Journal, and were also handed to members of a Senate Commerce subcommittee, according to Gizmodo. Now, a group of experts are teaming up to make the papers public.“We believe there’s a strong public need in making as many of the documents public as possible, as quickly as possible. To that end, we’ve partnered with a small group of independent monitors, who are joining us to establish guidelines for an accountable review of the documents prior to publication,” Gizmodo wrote. “The mission is to minimize any costs to individuals’ privacy or the furtherance of other harms while ensuring the responsible disclosure of the greatest amount of information…
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