Ex-Meta Researcher Details How Company Suppressed Harmful Data

Suppression of Harmful Data at Meta

• 💡 A former Meta researcher describes how the company's legal department actively worked to erase or prevent the collection of data showing emotional and psychological harm.
• 📌 In one instance, legal instructed the researcher to remove questions from a survey that were collecting data on harm to women, stating the survey would not run in the future without these omissions.
• ⚠️ Another example involved legal reviewing a completed report and demanding the removal of specific slides and lines that detailed emotional or psychological harm.

Justification for Data Removal

• 🎯 The primary justification provided by Meta's legal team for removing data was that **