{
  "id": 17202165,
  "title": "Meta discussed ‘whisper strategy’ against social media critic Jonathan Haidt, files show",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/29/meta-discussed-whisper-strategy-against-social-media-critic-jonathan",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-10-29T17:20:57.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Guardian Technology",
    "slug": "guardian-technology",
    "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/29/meta-staff-us-social-media-critic-jonathan-haidt-court-documents"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Court documents reveal staff considered ways to ‘get academic community to disavow’ influential US author Meta staff discussed deploying a “whisper strategy” to undermine the influential US academic whose work has inspired a global social media crackdown , according to court documents. Employees at the parent group of Facebook and Instagram sought to discredit Jonathan Haidt, the social…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}