🔴 NEW: Facebook whistleblower gives evidence to MPs.
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Frances Haugen, a former product manager at the social media giant, will face a committee scrutinising the Government’s upcoming Online Safety Bill.
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Haugen says the question is not whether Facebook invented concepts such as hate and ethnic violence – which it didn't – but rather what it's doing to amplify and expand these issues.
Asked if she thinks Facebook has made hate worse: "Unquestionably it's making hate worse"
Asked if she thinks Facebook has made hate worse: "Unquestionably it's making hate worse"
Asked whether it's a problem to omit societal harms from the upcoming Online Harms Bill, Haugen says it would be a "grave danger" to democracy.
➡️The Online Harms Bill is focused on personal harms to users, but campaigners have called for the inclusion of much broader harms
➡️The Online Harms Bill is focused on personal harms to users, but campaigners have called for the inclusion of much broader harms
🗣️Haugen came forward as a whistleblower earlier this year, releasing a trove of documents to the Wall Street Journal that alleged Facebook knew how harmful Instagram was for young users
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"Facebook has been unwilling to accept even small slivers of profit being sacrificed for safety," Haugen says.
The former Facebook employee has taken aim at the company for failing to act sooner to intervene when hate and violent speech is spreading
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The former Facebook employee has taken aim at the company for failing to act sooner to intervene when hate and violent speech is spreading
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❌Huagen describes children's relationship with social media as an "addicts' narrative", with kids reporting sites such as Facebook make them unhappy but they are unable to stop using them
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Haugen says there's a "pattern of inadequacy" at Facebook, adding that it refuses to acknowledge its own power and impact.
She says there's a "real pattern" of people who are willing to look the other way being promoting.
She describes this as "negligence" and "ignorance"
She says there's a "real pattern" of people who are willing to look the other way being promoting.
She describes this as "negligence" and "ignorance"
Asked if she thinks the Online Harms Bill is keeping Mark Zuckerberg up at night, Ms Haugen says the UK has a "world-leading stance" towards social media regulation.
"I can't imagine Mark isn't paying attention to what you're doing," she says
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"I can't imagine Mark isn't paying attention to what you're doing," she says
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Asked if she supports criminal sanctions to be brought in under the Online Harms Bill, Haugen gives a diplomatic answer.
⚖️She describes sanctions on executives as "like gasoline on the law". This could be good or bad depending on whether the laws are good, she says
⚖️She describes sanctions on executives as "like gasoline on the law". This could be good or bad depending on whether the laws are good, she says
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