Britain’s elite universities are continuing to benefit from multimillion-pound funding from Facebook’s owner, Meta, amid criticism over its approach to harmful content, ditching of independent factcheckers and political influence.
Members of the Russell Group benefited from a total of £2.8m worth of funding from Meta last year, and £7.7m over the past four years. Imperial College alone has taken £3.6m from Mark Zuckerberg’s companies since 2021.
