{"id":3121,"date":"2021-10-06T12:45:55","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T10:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/06\/techscape-was-this-the-worst-week-in-facebooks-history\/"},"modified":"2021-10-06T12:45:55","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T10:45:55","slug":"techscape-was-this-the-worst-week-in-facebooks-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/06\/techscape-was-this-the-worst-week-in-facebooks-history\/","title":{"rendered":"TechScape: Was this the worst week in Facebook\u2019s history?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Up for discussion in the Guardian tech newsletter: Zuckerberg forced to deal with crashes, leaks and \u2018destabilising democracy\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/info\/ng-interactive\/2021\/jun\/25\/techscape-sign-up\">Don\u2019t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up here<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What a week for Facebook, and it\u2019s only Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>After a month or so of bad news for the company, during which there have been damaging revelations the company knew Instagram was harming the mental health of teenagers and that Facebook knew changes to its news feed had made it more polarising in the lead-up to the 6 January storming of the Capitol. The former led Facebook to pause a plan to roll out a version of Instagram for kids.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cbuck stops\u201d with the founder and chief executive, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/mark-zuckerberg\">Mark Zuckerberg<\/a>.<\/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\/06\/facebook-techscape-whistleblower\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/e09339317c7df216cdbcab4ba0e6c2cd0abb531f\/0_322_5184_3110\/master\/5184.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=3f8f1a0a8d1e10de621378d2e741962f\" title=\"TechScape: Was this the worst week in Facebook\u2019s history?\" \/>Up for discussion in the Guardian tech newsletter: Zuckerberg forced to deal with crashes, leaks and \u2018destabilising democracy\u2019<br \/>\nDon\u2019t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up here<br \/>\nWhat a week for Facebook, and it\u2019s only Wednesday.<br \/>\nAfter a month or so of bad news for the company, during which there have been damaging revelations the company knew Instagram was harming the mental health of teenagers and that Facebook knew changes to its news feed had made it more polarising in the lead-up to the 6 January storming of the Capitol. The former led Facebook to pause a plan to roll out a version of Instagram for kids.<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>Up for discussion in the Guardian tech newsletter: Zuckerberg forced to deal with crashes, leaks and \u2018destabilising democracy\u2019 Don\u2019t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up here What a week for Facebook, and it\u2019s only Wednesday. After a month or so of bad news for the company, during which there have been damaging revelations &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/06\/techscape-was-this-the-worst-week-in-facebooks-history\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">TechScape: Was this the worst week in Facebook\u2019s history?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3122,"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\/3121"}],"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=3121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}