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# Joel Kaplan’s Policy Team Sways Big Facebook Decisions Like Alex Jones Ban
- URL: https://werd.io/joel-kaplans-policy-team-sways-big-facebook-decisions-like-alex/
- Published: 2022-08-04T17:06:37.000Z
- Updated: 2022-08-04T17:06:37.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: #Import 2025-06-13 09:23

“The company could have acted much earlier, one Facebook researcher wrote on the internal message board when they quit in August. The note came with a warning: “Integrity teams are facing increasing barriers to building safeguards.” They wrote of how proposed platform improvements that were backed by strong research and data had been “prematurely stifled or severely constrained … often based on fears of public and policy stakeholder responses.”” [#Technology](https://werd.io/tag/Technology)

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