At today's @SenateCommerce hearing with @FrancesHaugen, @MarshaBlackburn all but calls @Facebook officials liars: "Having seen the data that you've presented ... I feel pretty confident that it's Facebook, who has done the misrepresenting to this committee."
Whistleblower @FrancesHaugen: "I believe Facebook's products harm children, stoke division, and weaken our democracy."
.@FrancesHaugen: "Facebook consistently resolve these conflicts in favor of its own profits. The result has been more division, more harm, more lies more threats and more combat. In some cases, this does this dangerous online talk has led to actual violence".
"@Facebook intentionally hides vital information from the public from the US government and from governments around the world," @FrancesHaugen continues.
In her opening statement, @FrancesHaugen has repeatedly made the comparison between Big Tobacco and @Facebook. It appears to be resonating with senators, who are almost all listening with rapt attention.
Chilling warning from @FrancesHaugen: "My fear is that without action, divisive & extremist behaviors we see today are only the beginning. What we saw in Myanmar, & are seeing in Ethiopia are only the opening chapters of a story so terrifying no one wants to read the end of it."
@FrancesHaugen .@FrancesHaugen tells @SenBlumenthal that @Facebook needs to declare "moral bankruptcy"
.@SenAmyKlobuchar is getting heated in calling for new privacy laws: "We have not done anything to update our privacy laws in this country our federal privacy laws, nothing, zilch, in any major way. Why? Because there are lobbyists around every single corner of this building...
...that have been hired by the tech industry. We have done nothing when it comes to making the algorithms more transparent...because Facebook and the other tech companies are throwing a bunch of money around this town, and people are listening to them".
Whoa. @FrancesHaugen tells @SenatorCantwell that Mark Zuckerberg was told there were changes that could be made to prevent @Facebook from being used to enable genocide and chose to do nothing because it would have impacted profits.
"In the case of Ethiopia, there are 100 million people in Ethiopia and six languages. @Facebook only supports two of those languages for integrity systems," @FrancesHaugen says.
"Until we have transparency and our ability to confirm ourselves the Facebook's marketing messages are true, we will not have a system that is compatible with democracy." —@FrancesHaugen
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