Innovation policy press reporter Cat Zakrzewski, innovation press reporter Gerrit De Vynck, India-based reporter Niha Masih and foreign reporter Shibani Mahtani were acknowledged by The South Asian Reporters Association for finest Company Reporting for their 2021 Facebook Under Fire piece. The work was scored and chosen by panels of independent judges as the 2022 Company Reporting winner.
The piece belonged of The Post’s Facebook Paper series, which was released after a set of internal files from Facebook were supplied to Congress in redacted type from a Facebook whistleblower. Utilizing the files, the series exposed that the social networks giant has independently and thoroughly tracked real-world damages intensified by its platforms, disregarded warmings from its workers about the dangers of their style choices and exposed susceptible neighborhoods all over the world to a mixed drink of hazardous material. The series likewise included interviews with lots of existing and previous workers.