Facebook Papers Show a Company Locked in Zuckerberg’s Stranglehold

It’s no secret that Mark Zuckerberg runs Facebook with an iron fist. But what hasn’t been fully understood is how he frequently became the single point of control for many decisions at a sprawling company with more than 60,000 employees, leading to some of the problems the company faces today, internal company documents and interviews with former senior executives show.

Documents reviewed by The Information highlight how Zuckerberg alone often made decisions about how the company would deal with a deluge of blatant misinformation, violence and hate speech posted on its apps.