Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen makes sensational statements about Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg.
Frances Haugen became world famous when it became clear earlier this year that she was the whistleblower who was behind a huge leak from the technology giant. In addition to Facebook itself, the company also owns the services Messenger, Whats App, Instagram and Work Place.
According to Haugen, Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg are aware that the technology giant’s algorithms are harmful to users, but the tech company prioritizes making as much money as possible, rather than doing something about the problems they create.
Facebook constantly emphasizes their good intentions, but the documents that Frances Haugen has leaked show that the management of the company closes its eyes to problems that are identified by employees and others.
Despite all the criticism of Facebook’s business concept the company goes so it laughs. The profit in the third quarter of 2021 was 17 percent higher than in the same quarter last year, and according to Facebook, the number of monthly users has increased by 6 percent to 2.91 billion, distributed on the company’s various platforms.
Zuckerberg is the problem
In an interview with The Guardian says Frances Haugen that the boss himself, Mark Zuckerberg is a big part of the problem to Facebook. She describes that the top manager has a dictatorial power over the company.
Zuckerberg has full control over Facebook, has the majority of the voting shares in the company, controls who sits on the board and has increasingly surrounded himself with employees who never question his visions and decisions.
– It must change, says Haugen and adds that she thinks shareholders in Facebook would like to change the top management. If they could.
The shareholders, apart from Zuckerberg, have for years asked that one share should constitute one vote. I’m pretty sure it’s because they would have chosen a different leadership if they could, Haugen says in the interview.
Haugen is not the only one who thinks Zuckerberg and Facebook care more about money and profit than their social responsibility. US Senator Richard Blumenthal commented on the leaked documents as follows:
– These documents emphasize that the Facebook management repeatedly ignored internal alerts and chose to put profit in front of people, Blumenthal said.
This is what Facebook says
The online newspaper has been in contact with Facebook Norway. They will be quoted on the same as an anonymous spokesperson for the company told The Guardian:
– The story has a false premise. Yes, we are a company and yes we have a profit, but the idea that we do it at the expense of human security or welfare misunderstands where our commercial interests lie. The truth is that we have invested 13 billion dollars and have over 40,000 people who will do a job: Keep people safe on Facebook. We have no commercial or moral intensities to do anything other than give as many people as possible an experience as positive as possible. Like all other platforms, we constantly make difficult decisions between freedom of speech and hate speech, security and other challenges. We do not make these decisions in a vacuum, we use internal employees as well as external experts. But it is always best to leave it to elected officials to make these decisions, which is why we have for many years demanded updated internet regulations.
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