NEW: Facebook executives told employees Thursday that the social network isn’t a “root cause” of US polarization.
One researcher even argued that some polarization is good, actually, because it led to the civil rights movement.
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One researcher even argued that some polarization is good, actually, because it led to the civil rights movement.
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Facebook created a “playbook” that Chief Product Officer Chris Cox said would “equip all of you to go home and have dinner” with friends and family and explain why public perceptions of Facebook are wrong.
While denying that Facebook meaningfully contributes to polarization, a Facebook research scientist also suggested political polarization could be a good thing. 
The paper and webinar show how Facebook will publicly address the perception that it is harmful, an issue becoming increasingly urgent after the divisive presidential election and attempted coup exacerbated by misinformation and hate speech that proliferated on the platform.
When shown the internal document by BuzzFeed News, one former Facebook employee who studied polarization at the company said, “This memo is corporate gaslighting disguised as a research brief.”
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