her ultimate conclusion: “that the company is lying to the public about making significant progress against hate, violence and misinformation.”
CBS News 60 Minutes
Frances Haugen is 37, a data scientist from Iowa with a degree in computer engineering and a Harvard master’s degree in business. For 15 years she’s worked for companies including Google and Pinterest.
She is a former product manager on Facebook’s civic misinformation team who has turned whistleblower.
Reservations about the company’s policies are particularly surrounding the events of Jan. 6. Before the 2020 election, Haugen said, Facebook implemented measures to prevent the spread of misinformation, but the company decided to dissolve many of these protections after the election. She said she stopped trusting that her employer was willing to limit growth to improve public safety.
Dat weekend… https://airybubbles7.nl/blog/turbulent-weekend-op-het-internet/
“The European political parties were essentially saying to Facebook the way you’ve written your algorithm is changing the way we lead our countries.”
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Original Misson: to connect people across the globe. But it’s more profitable to send misinformation. It is all based on engagement. Meaningful social action. Facebook makes a model of you. Publishers know what kind of content you’re about to click
But, after the election, Facebook was used by some to organize the January 6th insurrection….
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