Meta Reorganizes Research Department Amid Scrutiny Over Findings
- Shake-up will affect 50 employees studying politics, health
- Meta faces pressure over leaked research on hate speech, teens
Meta headquarters in Menlo Park, California.
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Meta Platforms Inc. is restructuring its internal research department, bringing dozens of employees previously working on product specific teams or business units, like WhatsApp or Instagram, into a central group to handle research for the entire company.
The restructuring will affect about 50 researchers, says Pratiti Raychoudhury, the head of research at Meta, who will oversee the group. The changes will involve workers examining societal topics such as politics, well-being and health, climate, equity, and integrity-related topics like misinformation and account safety, said a spokeswoman for Meta, the former Facebook Inc.