In recent months, thousands of pages of internal documents have been released to journalists by a former Facebook employee. These documents contain overwhelming evidence that Facebook causes multiple types of harm to millions of people world-wide. The documents identify several types of harm, demonstrate that Facebook is well aware of the harm, and that Facebook consistently chooses to ignore these harms because reducing them might lower their profits.

#facebookharmsus is a resource for people and policy makers. We summarize 9 types of harm it causes and the supporting evidence that has been published. We link to the source documents that provide evidence of harm, and the decisions that were made to promote growth over safety.

Our goal is to encourage policy makers to take timely, well-informed action, and to encourage citizens to demand that they do.