{"id":3095,"date":"2021-10-05T19:37:44","date_gmt":"2021-10-05T17:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/05\/facebook-harms-children-and-is-damaging-democracy-claims-whistleblower\/"},"modified":"2021-10-05T19:37:44","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T17:37:44","slug":"facebook-harms-children-and-is-damaging-democracy-claims-whistleblower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/05\/facebook-harms-children-and-is-damaging-democracy-claims-whistleblower\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook harms children and is damaging democracy, claims whistleblower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Frances Haugen says in US Congress testimony that Facebook puts \u2018astronomical profits before people\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Facebook puts \u201castronomical profits before people\u201d, harms children and is destabilising democracies, a whistleblower has claimed in testimony to the US Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Frances Haugen said Facebook knew it steered young users towards damaging content and that its Instagram app was \u201clike cigarettes\u201d for under-18s. In a wide-ranging testimony, the former Facebook employee said the company did not have enough staff to keep the platform safe and was \u201cliterally fanning\u201d ethnic violence in developing countries.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cbuck stops\u201d with the founder and chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook knows its systems lead teenagers to anorexia-related content.<\/p>\n<p>The company had to \u201cbreak the glass\u201d and turn back on safety settings after the 6 January Washington riots.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook intentionally targets teenagers and children under 13.<\/p>\n<p>Monday\u2019s outage that brought down Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp meant that for more than five hours Facebook could not \u201cdestabilise democracies\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/oct\/05\/facebook-harms-children-damaging-democracy-claims-whistleblower\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/0af6f8ef3af9e222caa834047d36a9cd47b0c6bf\/0_0_3500_2101\/master\/3500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=a3ba5ab50cc0e14776729e9d3b5d5c30\" title=\"Facebook harms children and is damaging democracy, claims whistleblower\" \/>Frances Haugen says in US Congress testimony that Facebook puts \u2018astronomical profits before people\u2019<br \/>\nFacebook puts \u201castronomical profits before people\u201d, harms children and is destabilising democracies, a whistleblower has claimed in testimony to the US Congress.<br \/>\nFrances Haugen said Facebook knew it steered young users towards damaging content and that its Instagram app was \u201clike cigarettes\u201d for under-18s. In a wide-ranging testimony, the former Facebook employee said the company did not have enough staff to keep the platform safe and was \u201cliterally fanning\u201d ethnic violence in developing countries.<br \/>\nThe \u201cbuck stops\u201d with the founder and chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg.<br \/>\nFacebook knows its systems lead teenagers to anorexia-related content.<br \/>\nThe company had to \u201cbreak the glass\u201d and turn back on safety settings after the 6 January Washington riots.<br \/>\nFacebook intentionally targets teenagers and children under 13.<br \/>\nMonday\u2019s outage that brought down Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp meant that for more than five hours Facebook could not \u201cdestabilise democracies\u201d. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frances Haugen says in US Congress testimony that Facebook puts \u2018astronomical profits before people\u2019 Facebook puts \u201castronomical profits before people\u201d, harms children and is destabilising democracies, a whistleblower has claimed in testimony to the US Congress. Frances Haugen said Facebook knew it steered young users towards damaging content and that its Instagram app was \u201clike &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/05\/facebook-harms-children-and-is-damaging-democracy-claims-whistleblower\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Facebook harms children and is damaging democracy, claims whistleblower<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3096,"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\/3095"}],"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=3095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}