Complete new leaked Facebook confidential documents will be online to assist the International Grand Committee on Disinformation and Fake News, meeting in Ireland on Wednesday. oireachtas.ie/en/press-centr… @carolecadwalla, @DamianCollins , @JoStevensLabour, @profcarroll, @ashk4n
At noon on Wednesday, Dublin time, I + others will publish full copies of 6,971 pages of Facebook confidential and legal documents, leaked in February. Some are documents used by @commonscms in their report on Facebook. Download sites will be identified Wednesday.
Since then, key media partners @computerweekly, @nbcnews, @williamrt, @oliviasolon, @cfarivar have had full exclusive access to all the documents for investigative reporting, for a decisive serious of reports since March 2019.
1,210 of the pages to be released are marked "HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL" by Facebook. The documents evidence multiple breaches of the FTC settlement agreed by Facebook, leading to the record breaking $5 billion fine agreed in July.
Facebook leaks reveal anti-competitive projects to shut down thousands of app developers unless they paid Facebook through in-house advertising subsidiary, methods used by Facebook to deceives users about privacy, and to monetise their data, secretly allowing favoured companies.
The practice allowed abuses like Cambridge Analytica. Chosen companies could copy data from millions of online "friends". And much more ...
I am putting the full leaked documents into the public domain so that regulators, litigants can have fullest possible information. Last week I arranged for copies to go to US Congress, to help the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial and Administrative Law.
In September, the Subcommittee asked for all the documents. Facebook have ignored the request. I provided them.
