Internal documents describe Facebook employees’ embarrassment and frustration after decisions it made allowed users to post videos of murders, incitements to violence and advertisements for human trafficking on.wsj.com/3zjCxyt

In January, a Facebook investigator flagged to the company how a Mexican drug cartel was using Facebook to recruit, train and pay hit men. But Facebook didn’t block it from posting. on.wsj.com/2YSR3k7

With this kind of content overseas, Facebook removes some pages, though many more operate openly, according to the documents on.wsj.com/3nBtyGN

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When researchers inside Instagram began studying young users’ experiences on the photo-sharing app, they found that nearly a third of teenage girls said the platform made negative feelings they had about their bodies worse, internal documents show on.wsj.com/3Cb9QFU

“Teens blame Instagram for increases in the rate of anxiety and depression,” a slide from an internal Facebook presentation said. Among teens who reported suicidal thoughts, 13% of U.K. users and 6% of U.S. users traced those feelings to Instagram. on.wsj.com/3lr3o6D

The research offers the deepest look yet at what Facebook, which owns Instagram, knows about the app’s impact on teens and their mental health. Researchers concluded that some of the problems were specific to Instagram, and not social media more broadly. on.wsj.com/3hvQ5RA

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13 Sep

Mark Zuckerberg has publicly said that Facebook allows its more than three billion users to speak on equal footing with the elites of politics, culture and journalism, and that its standards of behavior apply to everyone, no matter their status or fame on.wsj.com/3Aa7XZg

In private, Facebook built a system that has exempted high-profile users from some or all of its rules, according to an extensive array of internal company documents reviewed by the Journal on.wsj.com/2Xp1cEK

Some VIPs are rendered immune from all enforcement actions. Others are allowed to publish rule-violating material—including posts containing harassment or incitement to violence—pending employee reviews that often never come, the documents show. on.wsj.com/3C9bkQK

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10 Sep

Nearly 3,000 children lost parents in the Sept. 11 attacks. Now young adults or in their 30s, some talk of the pain of missing fathers they never met, and the burden of constantly being seen as victims. on.wsj.com/3A6YhPi

Being labeled a child of 9/11 was uncomfortable for Leah Quigley, who was born a month after her father’s death. Like others who never met their dads—about 86% of the lost parents were fathers—she knows hers mostly from photos and stories told by others. on.wsj.com/38U9Kpq

Nicholas Gorki, whose mother was pregnant with him when his father died in the attacks, was a worrier growing up. He imagines how life would be different had his parents moved out of New York, which they had considered before the towers fell. on.wsj.com/3DZU6aj

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26 Aug

Breaking: An explosion hit a crowd of Afghans trying to enter the Kabul airport, with no immediate word on casualties on.wsj.com/2Wk3wg5

At least three U.S. troops were injured in an explosion at the Kabul airport, a U.S. official said. The blast came after several of America’s allies said they were halting evacuation flights. on.wsj.com/3jpy5cZ

A second explosion took place outside Kabul airport. Witnesses reported multiple fatalities. on.wsj.com/2UQ424t

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