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Facebook asks employees to preserve internal documents for legal inquiries

Published 10/27/2021, 03:39 PM
Updated 10/27/2021, 04:02 PM
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: The Facebook logo is displayed on a mobile phone in this picture illustration taken December 2, 2019. REUTERS/Johanna Geron/Illustration

(Reuters) - Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) has told its employees to preserve all internal documents and communications for legal reasons, as governments and regulators have started inquiries into its operation.

The increased scrutiny comes after former Facebook employee and whistleblower Frances Haugen leaked documents which she said showed the company chose profit over user safety.

Earlier in October, Senate Commerce Committee Chair Maria Cantwell called on Facebook Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg to preserve all documents related to a testimony from Haugen.

"On Tuesday, Facebook sent a legal hold notice to all personnel. Document preservation requests are part of the process of responding to legal inquiries," a Facebook spokesperson said.

The news was first reported by the New York Times. (https://nyti.ms/3EmOR3X)

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Will the "internal document" that said to exclude the bombshell NY Post Hunter Biden story? You know, the story that had 10% of Biden voters known, would not have voted for Biden? Also.. Let's go Brandon.
Leftists consider anything that they disagree with to be "misinformation". This is nothing but an attempt to create a Ministry of Truth, since leftist ideology cannot stand up to debate and scrutiny they have to resort to fascism and censorship. The amount of things that we were told was "misinformation" that we know is truth is growing by the day. Conspiracy theorists have ben right a lot more than the media and White House lately.
Leftists consider anything that they disagree with to be "misinformation". This is nothing but an attempt to create a Ministry of Truth, since leftist ideology cannot stand up to debate and scrutiny they have to resort to fascism and censorship. The amount of things that we were told was "misinformation" that we know is truth is growing by the day. Conspiracy theorists have ben right a lot more than the media and White House lately.
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