{"id":3081,"date":"2021-10-05T13:01:46","date_gmt":"2021-10-05T11:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/05\/facebook-whistleblower-accuses-firm-of-serially-misleading-over-safety\/"},"modified":"2021-10-05T13:01:46","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T11:01:46","slug":"facebook-whistleblower-accuses-firm-of-serially-misleading-over-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/05\/facebook-whistleblower-accuses-firm-of-serially-misleading-over-safety\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook whistleblower accuses firm of serially misleading over safety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Frances Haugen filed at least eight complaints against the company regarding its approach to safety<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/oct\/04\/how-friend-lost-to-misinformation-drove-facebook-whistleblower-frances-haugen\">Facebook whistleblower<\/a>, Frances Haugen, who testifies at the US Congress on Tuesday, has filed at least eight complaints with the US financial watchdog accusing the social media company of serially misleading investors and politicians over its approach to safety.<\/p>\n<p>The complaints, published online by the news programme 60 Minutes late on Monday, hours before Haugen\u2019s testimony to US senators at 10am EDT (3pm BST), are based on tens of thousands of internal documents that Haugen copied shortly before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/oct\/04\/facebook-tearing-our-societies-apart-key-excerpts-from-a-whistleblower-frances-haugen\">she quit Facebook<\/a> in May.<\/p>\n<p>The company\u2019s approach to hate speech.<\/p>\n<p>Its approach to teenage mental health.<\/p>\n<p>Its monitoring of human trafficking.<\/p>\n<p>How the company\u2019s algorithms promoted hate speech. <\/p>\n<p>Preferential disciplinary treatment for VIP users.<\/p>\n<p>Promoting ethnic violence.<\/p>\n<p>Failing to inform investors about a shrinking user base in certain demographics.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/oct\/05\/facebook-whistleblower-accuses-firm-of-serially-misleading-over-safety\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/9a167a9e2cf095e6f22d34029b3de153d66967fd\/94_0_2813_1688\/master\/2813.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=d66a6cd846c7edc66cd85383f2772a31\" title=\"Facebook whistleblower accuses firm of serially misleading over safety\" \/>Frances Haugen filed at least eight complaints against the company regarding its approach to safety<br \/>\nThe Facebook whistleblower, Frances Haugen, who testifies at the US Congress on Tuesday, has filed at least eight complaints with the US financial watchdog accusing the social media company of serially misleading investors and politicians over its approach to safety.<br \/>\nThe complaints, published online by the news programme 60 Minutes late on Monday, hours before Haugen\u2019s testimony to US senators at 10am EDT (3pm BST), are based on tens of thousands of internal documents that Haugen copied shortly before she quit Facebook in May.<br \/>\nThe company\u2019s approach to hate speech.<br \/>\nIts approach to teenage mental health.<br \/>\nIts monitoring of human trafficking.<br \/>\nHow the company\u2019s algorithms promoted hate speech.<br \/>\nPreferential disciplinary treatment for VIP users.<br \/>\nPromoting ethnic violence.<br \/>\nFailing to inform investors about a shrinking user base in certain demographics. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frances Haugen filed at least eight complaints against the company regarding its approach to safety The Facebook whistleblower, Frances Haugen, who testifies at the US Congress on Tuesday, has filed at least eight complaints with the US financial watchdog accusing the social media company of serially misleading investors and politicians over its approach to safety. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/05\/facebook-whistleblower-accuses-firm-of-serially-misleading-over-safety\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Facebook whistleblower accuses firm of serially misleading over safety<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3082,"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\/3081"}],"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=3081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}