There is “no will at the top of Facebook to ensure it is run in an adequately safe way” and Mark Zuckerberg is only concerned with shareholder interest, according to Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen, who is giving evidence to a UK committee this afternoon.
Haugen, who leaked thousands of internal documents that have this week been collated by news outlets as the ‘Facebook Papers’, repeatedly stressed a “pattern of inadequacy” and “flatness” at Facebook that deems it unsafe for its users, especially those aged under 18.
She told US lawmakers earlier this month that breaking up Facebook wouldn’t lessen the risks its platform poses.
Giving evidence this afternoon to the UK’s Draft Online Safety Committee Bill Joint Committee, which is overseeing new UK laws to regulate social networks, she said: “Facebook is negligent and shows a pattern of inadequacy. It is unwilling to acknowledge its own power or accept that children are not adults.
Haugen, who leaked thousands of internal documents that have this week been collated by news outlets as the ‘Facebook Papers’, repeatedly stressed a “pattern of inadequacy” and “flatness” at Facebook that deems it unsafe for its users, especially those aged under 18.
She told US lawmakers earlier this month that breaking up Facebook wouldn’t lessen the risks its platform poses.
Giving evidence this afternoon to the UK’s Draft Online Safety Committee Bill Joint Committee, which is overseeing new UK laws to regulate social networks, she said: “Facebook is negligent and shows a pattern of inadequacy. It is unwilling to acknowledge its own power or accept that children are not adults.
- 10/25/2021
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
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