This week, the Wire published a damning report about the content moderation policies of Meta, the social media behemoth that owns Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram. Meta, which has misled about how it functions and moderates content before, replied saying the news report was misleading at best and fabricated at worst. The Wire disputed Meta’s claims and published an internal email in a follow-up story. As everybody on the internet started to opine on who had the right of it, things started to get hazy.
So, what exactly happened?
