the metropolitan police is to apologise to the family of two murdered sisters after a report concluded that the level of service provided after their disappearance was unacceptable. nicole smallman and bibaa henry were killed injune as they celebrated a birthday in a park in wembley. the independent office for police conduct found that officers were slow to investigate after the women were reported missing. more than a third of the world s population are active users of facebook and its other social media products. it s a startling figure, and the global tech giant has been facing serious allegations about the impact of its platforms on society. a former facebook manager who s turned whistleblower has told a parliamentary committee at westminster that facebook and others are subsidising hate online. our technology correspondent, rory cellan jones, has the story.
more than a third of the world s population are active users of facebook and its other social media products. no company in the world has such power and yet such little transparency. but things are changing. since friday, a consortium of news organizations in the united states has begun publishing a series of stories called the facebook papers the evidence comes from hundreds of internal company documents which have been sent to the securities and exchange commission and provided to congress, by facebook whistleblower frances haugen and her legal counsel. the evidence points directly at mark zuckerberg. time and again in these papers, company insiders say the facebook ceo chose profit over safety, compromising his own rules, with disastrous outcomes. today, ms haugen was here in the uk to give evidence