{"id":3427,"date":"2021-10-25T18:44:19","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T16:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/25\/facebook-whistleblower-frances-haugen-calls-for-urgent-external-regulation\/"},"modified":"2021-10-25T18:44:19","modified_gmt":"2021-10-25T16:44:19","slug":"facebook-whistleblower-frances-haugen-calls-for-urgent-external-regulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/25\/facebook-whistleblower-frances-haugen-calls-for-urgent-external-regulation\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen calls for urgent external regulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-employee tells UK MPs Mark Zuckerberg \u2018has unilateral control over 3bn people\u2019 due to his position<\/p>\n<p>Mark Zuckerberg \u201chas unilateral control over 3 billion people\u201d due to his unassailable position at the top of Facebook, the whistleblower Frances Haugen told MPs as she called for urgent external regulation to rein in the tech company\u2019s management and reduce the harm being done to society.<\/p>\n<p>Haugen, a former Facebook employee who released tens of thousands of damaging documents about its inner workings, travelled to London from the US for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/live\/2021\/oct\/25\/uk-covid-news-live-coronavirus-vaccine-passports-jabs-compulsory\">parliamentary hearing<\/a> and gave qualified backing to UK government proposals to regulate social media platforms and make them take some responsibility for content on their sites.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/oct\/25\/facebook-whistleblower-frances-haugen-calls-for-urgent-external-regulation\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/86cc581eab0bd2342152921d1ee24ae6151d7e1c\/51_389_3231_1939\/master\/3231.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=d919d420ca13955f1a07918c1405b40a\" title=\"Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen calls for urgent external regulation\" \/>Ex-employee tells UK MPs Mark Zuckerberg \u2018has unilateral control over 3bn people\u2019 due to his position<br \/>\nMark Zuckerberg \u201chas unilateral control over 3 billion people\u201d due to his unassailable position at the top of Facebook, the whistleblower Frances Haugen told MPs as she called for urgent external regulation to rein in the tech company\u2019s management and reduce the harm being done to society.<br \/>\nHaugen, a former Facebook employee who released tens of thousands of damaging documents about its inner workings, travelled to London from the US for a parliamentary hearing and gave qualified backing to UK government proposals to regulate social media platforms and make them take some responsibility for content on their sites. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-employee tells UK MPs Mark Zuckerberg \u2018has unilateral control over 3bn people\u2019 due to his position Mark Zuckerberg \u201chas unilateral control over 3 billion people\u201d due to his unassailable position at the top of Facebook, the whistleblower Frances Haugen told MPs as she called for urgent external regulation to rein in the tech company\u2019s management &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/25\/facebook-whistleblower-frances-haugen-calls-for-urgent-external-regulation\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen calls for urgent external regulation<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3428,"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\/3427"}],"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=3427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}