Former Employee Calls Facebook The Most Urgent Threat To The United States

WASHINGTON – Reporter (whistleblower) Facebook Frances Haugen will appear before the US Congress on Tuesday (5/10/2021) local time. He would sharply criticize Facebook as “one of the most pressing threats” facing the country.

He also demanded transparency about Facebook’s operations.

Haugen is a former product manager on Facebook’s civic misinformation team. He said the social media giant kept its algorithms and operations a secret.

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“The crux of the problem is that no one understands Facebook’s destructive choices better than Facebook, because only Facebook can see behind them,” he said in written testimony prepared for a meeting with the US Congress.

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“An important starting point for effective regulation is transparency,” he said in testimony to be presented to the US Senate Commerce subcommittee.

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He explains, “On this foundation, we can build reasonable rules and standards to address consumer harm, illegal content, data protection, anti-competitive practices, algorithmic systems, and more.”

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