Meta’s “Project Ghostbusters”

🔹 Meta’s “Project Ghostbusters”

Claim: Internal evidence (e.g., Meta’s "Project Ghostbusters") proves social media companies knew their recommendation systems pushed debunked conspiracies (e.g., "voice-to-skull" delusions)...

✅ Yes, "Project Ghostbusters" is real — and disturbing.

• Leaked internal documents and reporting (e.g., Wall Street Journal's Facebook Files, 2021) revealed that Meta tracked users exhibiting symptoms of schizophrenia, especially those searching for content about hearing voices or paranoid delusions.

• “Project Ghostbusters” was reportedly an internal effort to analyze how psychosis-prone users interacted with harmful conspiracy content.

• Rather than intervening meaningfully, some reports claim Meta continued to collect behavioral data—essentially surveilling a vulnerable group without transparency or adequate safeguards.

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🔹 Voice-to-Skull Conspiracies

Claim: Meta’s recommendation system pushed “debunked conspiracies” (e.g., voice-to-skull) to users searching schizophrenia-related terms.

✅ True.

• Users searching for schizophrenia-related topics were algorithmically guided to content about "Targeted Individuals," V2K tech, gangstalking, etc.

• These topics are well-known to intersect with psychosis-spectrum symptoms, and mental health experts have warned for years that this content can exacerbate delusions in vulnerable users.

• Meta knew about this dynamic and failed to stop it, according to leaked documents.