It's Wednesday, October 27th. I'm Gideon Ressing.

And I'm Josie DeFy Race. And this is What A Day. The podcast that's keeping a watchful

eye on any unattended candy buckets on people's stoops this weekend.

Yes, if you or your child take more than one candy truss us, this podcast will leap out

from behind the bushes and scare you.

On today's show, powerful storms have spread both the East and West Coast plus congressional

dams rush to make a deal on the multi-trillion dollar climate and social spending package.

But first, there has been a drum beat of stories over the last few weeks all stemming from

a set of documents called the Facebook papers. And so much has come out in such a short

span of time that we wanted to catch you up, but also put it into context of the company's

future.

That's right. So this started when former Facebook employee and whistleblower Francis

Hogan disclosed this huge trove of documents to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

A big group of news outlets have reviewed these redacted versions as well and pursued their

own reporting. What is a merge is a really damaging set of stories about the company, some

of which we've mentioned on the show. Beginning with a Wall Street Journal report last month,

detailing how the company was aware that Instagram was creating a toxic environment for teenage

girls.

Yeah, that's one of many other stories documented how the company has prioritized engagement

over user safety, the actions and the lack of actions taken in the lead up to the January

6th insurrection and Facebook's failure to moderate hate speech and misinformation

in other countries across the world.

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