{"id":25346,"date":"2026-10-08T09:37:29","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T07:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/08\/why-arturo-bejar-left-meta-and-blew-the-whistle-i-dont-recall-mark-ever-being-empathetic\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T09:37:29","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T07:37:29","slug":"why-arturo-bejar-left-meta-and-blew-the-whistle-i-dont-recall-mark-ever-being-empathetic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/08\/why-arturo-bejar-left-meta-and-blew-the-whistle-i-dont-recall-mark-ever-being-empathetic\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Arturo B\u00e9jar left Meta \u2013 and blew the whistle: \u2018I don\u2019t recall Mark ever being empathetic\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

B\u00e9jar\u2019s daughter was 14 when she told him Instagram was failing to keep her safe. So when he became part of Meta\u2019s \u2018wellbeing team\u2019, he knew he had to speak out \u2013 and his testimony cost it billions<\/p>\n

The Social Reckoning hits cinemas this Friday, but the real world has already been working on a sequel \u2013 or rather, a threequel. Directed by Aaron Sorkin, the movie is a follow-up to The Social Network, detailing the further misadventures of Mark Zuckerberg and his social media empire, and in particular Frances Haugen<\/a>, the employee who in 2021 leaked internal documents that appeared to show Facebook was aware of the harms its products had inflicted.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s no spoiler to reveal the film climaxes with Haugen\u2019s testimony to the US Senate, on 5 October 2021. That very same day, Arturo B\u00e9jar, a consultant on the wellbeing team of Instagram (which is also owned by Facebook), hit send on a long-gestating email to Zuckerberg<\/a> and other senior Facebook executives on a similar theme. \u201cI wanted to bring to your attention what I believe is a critical gap in how we as a company approach harm, and how the people we serve experience it,\u201d B\u00e9jar began, before laying out some shocking statistics from his team\u2019s survey. For example: 24.4% of 13-15-year-olds on Instagram said they had received unwanted advances, and 21.8% said they had been the target of bullying on the platform in the past seven days<\/em>. Furthermore, 51% of Instagram users said they had had a bad or harmful experience in the past seven days. Only 1% of them reported it, and of those, 2% had the content taken down \u2013 so just 0.02%. This was a far greater degree of harm than the company\u2019s existing measurements suggested. Zuckerberg never replied.<\/p>\n

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\nB\u00e9jar\u2019s daughter was 14 when she told him Instagram was failing to keep her safe. So when he became part of Meta\u2019s \u2018wellbeing team\u2019, he knew he had to speak out \u2013 and his testimony cost it billions
\nThe Social Reckoning hits cinemas this Friday, but the real world has already been working on a sequel \u2013 or rather, a threequel. Directed by Aaron Sorkin, the movie is a follow-up to The Social Network, detailing the further misadventures of Mark Zuckerberg and his social media empire, and in particular Frances Haugen, the employee who in 2021 leaked internal documents that appeared to show Facebook was aware of the harms its products had inflicted.
\nIt\u2019s no spoiler to reveal the film climaxes with Haugen\u2019s testimony to the US Senate, on 5 October 2021. That very same day, Arturo B\u00e9jar, a consultant on the wellbeing team of Instagram (which is also owned by Facebook), hit send on a long-gestating email to Zuckerberg and other senior Facebook executives on a similar theme. \u201cI wanted to bring to your attention what I believe is a critical gap in how we as a company approach harm, and how the people we serve experience it,\u201d B\u00e9jar began, before laying out some shocking statistics from his team\u2019s survey. For example: 24.4% of 13-15-year-olds on Instagram said they had received unwanted advances, and 21.8% said they had been the target of bullying on the platform in the past seven days. Furthermore, 51% of Instagram users said they had had a bad or harmful experience in the past seven days. Only 1% of them reported it, and of those, 2% had the content taken down \u2013 so just 0.02%. This was a far greater degree of harm than the company\u2019s existing measurements suggested. Zuckerberg never replied. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

B\u00e9jar\u2019s daughter was 14 when she told him Instagram was failing to keep her safe. So when he became part of Meta\u2019s \u2018wellbeing team\u2019, he knew he had to speak out \u2013 and his testimony cost it billions The Social Reckoning hits cinemas this Friday, but the real world has already been working on a …<\/p>\n

Why Arturo B\u00e9jar left Meta \u2013 and blew the whistle: \u2018I don\u2019t recall Mark ever being empathetic\u2019<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":25347,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25346"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}