🚨The whistleblower is revealed ahead of the @60Minutes special
https://twitter.com/jeffhorwitz/status/1444804432177229824
Frances Haugen left in March of 2021. A data scientist. She secretly copied thousands of documents. She says Facebook is lying about the progress it’s making on misinformation and hate speech.
“The version of Facebook today is causing ethnic violence around the world”
Frances Haugen lost a friend to online conspiracy theories. She was assigned to civic integrity. After the last election, “Civic Integrity” was dissolved before the Jan 6 insurrection.
Haugen told CBS that the root problem is in a change to the algorithm in 2018. Internal research shows “anger” is the emotion that Facebook tries to push content to users because it makes the most money. Facebook turn off this feature after elections.
Facebook employees were enraged after the Jan 6 insurrection. Angry at executives who they believe should have figured it out by now.
“Facebook makes more money when you consume more content.”
Political parties in Europe were saying to Facebook that the way you wrote your algorithm forces the parties to make more extreme policies to reach communities.
“17% - Teen girls of Instagram users say Instagram makes eating disorders worse”
Facebook’s own research says that Instagram is distinctly worse than other social media platforms.
Facebook’s own research says that Instagram is distinctly worse than other social media platforms.
Haugen filed 8 complaints with the SEC.
.@wbaidlaw with Haugen says that going to the SEC saying Facebook lied to its investors.
“Mark never set out to make a hateful platform.” But the side effects have gotten us here today.
Haugen will testify before Congress next Tuesday.
“Facebook chooses profit over safety.”
“Facebook chooses profit over safety.”
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