{"id":3145,"date":"2021-10-07T10:39:07","date_gmt":"2021-10-07T08:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/07\/facebook-cant-keep-its-head-in-the-sand-five-experts-debate-the-companys-future\/"},"modified":"2021-10-07T10:39:07","modified_gmt":"2021-10-07T08:39:07","slug":"facebook-cant-keep-its-head-in-the-sand-five-experts-debate-the-companys-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/07\/facebook-cant-keep-its-head-in-the-sand-five-experts-debate-the-companys-future\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Facebook can\u2019t keep its head in the sand\u2019: five experts debate the company\u2019s future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whistleblower Frances Haugen testified the company is harming children and putting profits over safety, but what lies ahead?<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/oct\/05\/frances-haugen-whistleblower-moral-bankruptcy-facebook\">congressional testimony<\/a> of Frances Haugen is being described as a potential watershed moment after the former Facebook employee turned whistleblower warned lawmakers must \u201cact now\u201d to rein in the social media company.<\/p>\n<p>But the impact of the hearing \u2013 in which Haugen used her time at Facebook and leaked internal research <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/oct\/05\/facebook-whistleblower-hearing-key-takeaways-france-haugen\">to build a case<\/a> that it is harming children, destabilizing democracies, and putting profits over safety \u2013 is uncertain, as lawmakers, experts and regulators remain split over the path forward. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/oct\/07\/facebook-whistleblower-hearing-frances-haugen-experts\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/25aadf8c0c11569c743ef26fe30d2a3ae16846b9\/0_255_5184_3110\/master\/5184.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=8ac0c1294b7d05cd6b03b692f55ef776\" title=\"\u2018Facebook can\u2019t keep its head in the sand\u2019: five experts debate the company\u2019s future\" \/>Whistleblower Frances Haugen testified the company is harming children and putting profits over safety, but what lies ahead?<br \/>\nThe congressional testimony of Frances Haugen is being described as a potential watershed moment after the former Facebook employee turned whistleblower warned lawmakers must \u201cact now\u201d to rein in the social media company.<br \/>\nBut the impact of the hearing \u2013 in which Haugen used her time at Facebook and leaked internal research to build a case that it is harming children, destabilizing democracies, and putting profits over safety \u2013 is uncertain, as lawmakers, experts and regulators remain split over the path forward.  Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whistleblower Frances Haugen testified the company is harming children and putting profits over safety, but what lies ahead? The congressional testimony of Frances Haugen is being described as a potential watershed moment after the former Facebook employee turned whistleblower warned lawmakers must \u201cact now\u201d to rein in the social media company. But the impact of &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/07\/facebook-cant-keep-its-head-in-the-sand-five-experts-debate-the-companys-future\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018Facebook can\u2019t keep its head in the sand\u2019: five experts debate the company\u2019s future<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3146,"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\/3145"}],"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=3145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}