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“Nobody outside of Facebook knows what happens inside.” This is how Frances Haugen wanted to denounce the operation of the company before the European Parliament. Her name may not sound familiar to you, but this ex-Facebook worker turned Mark Zuckerberg’s company upside down: “Facebook has become a trillion dollar company in exchange for our safety and the safety of our children. […] He has infinite resources that he could use to destroy me. “
Following his statement, Rodrigo Blázquez, journalist and presenter of laSexta Noche, analyzes the most important keys to this issue to understand why this is being the worst autumn in the history of Facebook. The social network has been known to foster tension. An example: in 2018, it changed its algorithm to facilitate interactions between users. Since then, sensational content and hate messages had an easier way to go viral.
When Zuckerberg himself found out what was happening, what did he decide to do? Any. The second danger of the networks centers on InstagramAccording to an internal report from the company itself, it worsens mental health problems, such as depression or anxiety, for one in three adolescent women. That is, they also knew what was happening and had internal reports about it. And they also decided to shut up.
The third unedifying practice of this social network: Facebook hasn’t fought crime enough. Thousands of employees have denounced that the social network is a platform used by drug cartels or even human traffickers. There are even alerts about the sale of organs. Again, its own internal documents show that the company has not done everything in its power to nip this problem in the bud.
The fourth point is the one that is best known: hoaxes and misinformation. In the middle of the pandemic, Facebook workers denounced that the social network neither detected nor warned about the comments of the anti-vaccines. They asked for more resources to face the problem and the managers rejected it. All this has been known thanks to the newspaper ‘The Wall Street Journal’. Now it only remains to know if the name change also brings a change in attitude.
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