Testimony and disclosures regarding Facebook internal research on engagement-based ranking

Why this matters here

Haugen’s October 5, 2021 Senate testimony and disclosures concerned Facebook internal research on engagement-based ranking and the tradeoffs between behavioral metrics and contested judgments about harm. When Incentives Become the Moral Language cites that record for how institutions gravitate toward graphs that look descriptive when editorial judgment about desirable public life is harder to defend. Haugen reports internal research and ranking pressures; the book asks when countable engagement becomes the moral vocabulary of the feed.