Last week, the Wall Street Journal published a series of investigative articles about Facebook, and now the company is pushing back by describing the stories as "riddled with flaws" and "deliberate mischaracterizations," per Insider.
- "At the heart of this series is an allegation that is just plain false: that Facebook conducts research and then systematically and willfully ignores it if the findings are inconvenient for the company," writes Facebook VP Nick Clegg in a blog post.
- He accuses the Journal of "cherry-picking" information from leaked internal research to present Facebook in the worst possible light. One of the most serious allegations is that Facebook-owned Instagram knew its product was particularly toxic for teen girls but kept focusing on that demographic.