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Oct. 5 (UPI) -- Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen testified in the Senate on Tuesday that the social media company has long known about misinformation and hate speech on the platform and negative impacts on young users. At the hearing, called "Protecting Kids Online: Testimony from a Facebook Whistleblower," Haugen explained...
Former Facebook insider claims social network puts profits before people. Plus, Trump aides could resist subpoena
Facebook puts “astronomical profits before people,” harms children and is destabilizing democracies, a whistle-blower has claimed in testimony to the US Congress. Frances Haugen said that Facebook knew it steered young users toward damaging content and that its Instagram app was “like cigarettes” for those aged 18 and younger. In a wide-ranging testimony, the former Facebook employee said that the company did not have enough staff to keep the platform safe and was “literally fanning” ethnic violence in developing countries. She also told US senators: The “buck stops” with cofou...
Frances Haugen, the former Facebook employee who testified before the Senate commerce committee today, has a history of left-wing activism and is working with the same lawyer who represented the alleged Ukraine whistleblower who sparked the second bogus Trump impeachment.
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