Facebook Is Rebuked by Oversight Board Over Transparency on Treatment of Prominent Users

By: The Wall Street Journal October 21, 2021 Facebook Inc.’s FB 1.57% oversight board said the company hadn’t been forthcoming about how it exempts high-profile users from its rules and said it is drafting recommendations for how to overhaul the system, following a Wall Street Journal investigation into the practice. In a report released Thursday, the oversight board said […]
How Many Users Does Facebook Have? The Company Struggles to Figure It Out

By: The Wall Street Journal October 21, 2021 Facebook Inc. is struggling to detect and deal with users’ creating multiple accounts on its flagship platform, according to internal documents that raise new questions about how the social-media giant measures its audience. An internal Facebook presentation this spring called the phenomenon of single users with multiple […]