Facebook Whistle-blower Elicits Faux Outrage in Congress
By Dennis Kneale
Wednesday, 06 October 2021 01:52 PM
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Suddenly, all hell is breaking loose for Facebook — yet again.
And already, it feels like the fix is in and that the furrowed brows in Congress and the televised hearings that began on Tuesday may lead to little reform and lax punishment for the omnipotent social media platform that is messing with the minds of 2.9 billion people around the world.
The latest brouhaha was sparked by a startling exposé published last week by The Wall Street Journal (where I worked for 16 years, long ago). It was based on thousands of pages of internal documents provided by Facebook whistle-blower Frances Haugen.
She then appeared in a ''60 Minutes'' interview on Sunday night and testified before a U.S. Senate committee on Tuesday. A hat trick.
The WSJ exposé showed that Facebook is knowingly guilty of multiple sins: that it favored elites (mostly liberals) and let them violate Facebook guidelines restricting hate speech and misinformation; used algorithms that fostered discord to increase engagement and ad sales; and was used openly by drug cartels and human traffickers.
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