{"id":3107,"date":"2021-10-06T05:41:06","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T03:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/06\/facebook-whistleblowers-testimony-could-finally-spark-action-in-congress\/"},"modified":"2021-10-06T05:41:06","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T03:41:06","slug":"facebook-whistleblowers-testimony-could-finally-spark-action-in-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/06\/facebook-whistleblowers-testimony-could-finally-spark-action-in-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook whistleblower\u2019s testimony could finally spark action in Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite years of hearings, the company has long seemed untouchable. But Frances Haugen appears to have inspired rare bipartisanship<\/p>\n<p>The testimony of Frances Haugen, a former Facebook employee, is likely to increase pressure on US lawmakers to undertake concrete legislative actions against the formerly untouchable tech company, following years of hearings and circular discussions about big tech\u2019s growing power.<\/p>\n<p>In a hearing on Tuesday, the whistleblower <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/oct\/05\/facebook-harms-children-damaging-democracy-claims-whistleblower\">shared<\/a> internal Facebook reports with Congress and argued the company puts \u201castronomical profits before people\u201d, harms children and is destabilizing democracies.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/oct\/05\/facebook-frances-haugen-whistleblower-regulation\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/1b7de51fb6e15422910fb7558bf6bb00803a678e\/0_0_5093_3056\/master\/5093.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=9b8f124d9eace76714c26be3e06a2f43\" title=\"Facebook whistleblower\u2019s testimony could finally spark action in Congress\" \/>Despite years of hearings, the company has long seemed untouchable. But Frances Haugen appears to have inspired rare bipartisanship<br \/>\nThe testimony of Frances Haugen, a former Facebook employee, is likely to increase pressure on US lawmakers to undertake concrete legislative actions against the formerly untouchable tech company, following years of hearings and circular discussions about big tech\u2019s growing power.<br \/>\nIn a hearing on Tuesday, the whistleblower shared internal Facebook reports with Congress and argued the company puts \u201castronomical profits before people\u201d, harms children and is destabilizing democracies. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite years of hearings, the company has long seemed untouchable. But Frances Haugen appears to have inspired rare bipartisanship The testimony of Frances Haugen, a former Facebook employee, is likely to increase pressure on US lawmakers to undertake concrete legislative actions against the formerly untouchable tech company, following years of hearings and circular discussions about &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/06\/facebook-whistleblowers-testimony-could-finally-spark-action-in-congress\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Facebook whistleblower\u2019s testimony could finally spark action in Congress<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3108,"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\/3107"}],"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=3107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}