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870 Meta loosened safety standards because ‘the stock price is down’: whistleblowers detail Big Tech’s engagement-over-safety playbook

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James Brennan @ Silicon Canals · 03/16/2026 09:33 EDT

Meta loosened safety standards because ‘the stock price is down’: whistleblowers detail Big Tech’s engagement-over-safety playbook

When a Meta engineer asked senior management why the company was loosening its content safety standards, the answer was disarmingly honest. “They sort of told us that it’s because the stock price is down,” the engineer recalled. That single sentence captures something important about how the largest platforms in the world actually make decisions. The ... Read more

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