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Advocate for accountability & transparency in social media | @OlinCollege @HarvardHBS alumna | Iowan | Data Scientist | 🕵️‍♀️⛑🕊 press@franceshaugen.com
Aug 25, 2022 7 tweets 2 min read
1/ If Twitter whistleblower (and head of security) Peiter Zatkoin left you asking, "How could it possibly be this bad???" you're not alone. Twitter's problems aren't unique, and we should worry…

edition.cnn.com/2022/08/24/tec… 2/ Many of Meta/Facebook's problems came from running critical teams with skeleton crews. Twitter makes signficantly less revenue per user than Facebook does - it's no surprise Twitter is struggling to follow even minimal security or system stability standards.
Mar 21, 2022 6 tweets 6 min read
Today @StateDept formally announced that violence perpetrated by Myanmar’s military against the #Rohingya constitutes genocide and crimes against humanity. This should bring renewed attention to the role of Facebook @meta in fuelling the #Rohingya genocide. 1/6 It has been 5 years of promises from @meta to “do more” and “do better.” So, are they? No. @Global_Witness had 8 ads with explicit hate speech about #Rohingya approved for publication. 👎👎👎AP News: bit.ly/3wpZiD5 2/6