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Title    Facebook's New Whistleblower is Renewing Scrutiny of the Social Media Giant
Date    Monday October 04 2021, @09:15PM
Author    martyb
Topic   
from the Facebook-will-return-soon! dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=21/10/04/2049224

Facebook's new whistleblower is renewing scrutiny of the social media giant

takyon writes:

The leaker came forward:

Facebook Whistleblower Frances Haugen: The 60 Minutes Interview (13m36s video)

Facebook's new whistleblower is renewing scrutiny of the social media giant

A data scientist named Frances Haugen has revealed herself to be the whistleblower behind a massive exposure of the inner workings at Facebook.

Prior to appearing on 60 Minutes on Sunday, Haugen, a former employee at the social media giant, kept her identity a secret after sharing thousands of pages of internal Facebook documents to the media and federal law enforcement.

[...] Haugen's document dump, her testimony scheduled in front of Congress this week, and an ongoing investigative reporting series into the company are potentially pushing Facebook into its biggest crisis yet. The negative spotlight also comes as Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill are increasingly scrutinizing Facebook's actions.

The Facebook Files

takyon writes:

The Facebook Files

Facebook Inc. knows, in acute detail, that its platforms are riddled with flaws that cause harm, often in ways only the company fully understands. That is the central finding of a Wall Street Journal series, based on a review of internal Facebook documents, including research reports, online employee discussions and drafts of presentations to senior management.

Time and again, the documents show, Facebook's researchers have identified the platform's ill effects. Time and again, despite congressional hearings, its own pledges and numerous media exposés, the company didn't fix them. The documents offer perhaps the clearest picture thus far of how broadly Facebook's problems are known inside the company, up to the chief executive himself.

  1. Facebook Says Its Rules Apply to All. Company Documents Reveal a Secret Elite That's Exempt (archive) (podcast)
  2. Facebook Knows Instagram Is Toxic for Many Teen Girls, Company Documents Show (archive) (podcast)
  3. Facebook Tried to Make Its Platform a Healthier Place. It Got Angrier Instead. (archive) (podcast)
  4. Facebook Employees Flag Drug Cartels and Human Traffickers. The Company's Response Is Weak, Documents Show. (archive) (podcast)
  5. How Facebook Hobbled Mark Zuckerberg's Bid to Get America Vaccinated (archive)
  6. Facebook's Effort to Attract Preteens Goes Beyond Instagram Kids, Documents Show (archive) (podcast)
  7. Facebook's Documents About Instagram and Teens, Published (archive)
  8. Is Sheryl Sandberg's Power Shrinking? Ten Years of Facebook Data Offers Clues (archive)
  9. The Facebook Whistleblower, Frances Haugen, Says She Wants to Fix the Company, Not Harm It (archive) (podcast)

Archive links bypass the paywall, podcasts include a transcript.

See also: Instagram for Kids and What Facebook Knows About the Effects of Social Media


Original Submission #1Original Submission #2

Links

  1. "takyon" - https://soylentnews.org/~takyon/
  2. "Facebook Whistleblower Frances Haugen: The 60 Minutes Interview" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Lx5VmAdZSI
  3. "Facebook's new whistleblower is renewing scrutiny of the social media giant" - https://www.npr.org/2021/10/04/1042921981/facebook-whistleblower-renewing-scrutiny-of-social-media-giant
  4. "The Facebook Files" - https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-facebook-files-11631713039
  5. "Facebook Says Its Rules Apply to All. Company Documents Reveal a Secret Elite That's Exempt" - https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-files-xcheck-zuckerberg-elite-rules-11631541353
  6. "archive" - https://archive.is/AfGcU
  7. "podcast" - https://www.wsj.com/podcasts/the-journal/the-facebook-files-part-1-the-whitelist/aa216713-15af-474e-9fd4-5070ccaa774c
  8. "Facebook Knows Instagram Is Toxic for Many Teen Girls, Company Documents Show" - https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-knows-instagram-is-toxic-for-teen-girls-company-documents-show-11631620739
  9. "archive" - https://archive.is/wmBJm
  10. "podcast" - https://www.wsj.com/podcasts/the-journal/the-facebook-files-part-2-we-make-body-image-issues-worse/C2C4D7BA-F261-4343-8D18-D4DE177CF973
  11. "Facebook Tried to Make Its Platform a Healthier Place. It Got Angrier Instead." - https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-algorithm-change-zuckerberg-11631654215
  12. "archive" - https://archive.is/NQxPH
  13. "podcast" - https://www.wsj.com/podcasts/the-journal/the-facebook-files-part-4-the-outrage-algorithm/e619fbb7-43b0-485b-877f-18a98ffa773f
  14. "Facebook Employees Flag Drug Cartels and Human Traffickers. The Company's Response Is Weak, Documents Show." - https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-drug-cartels-human-traffickers-response-is-weak-documents-11631812953
  15. "archive" - https://archive.is/epKXZ
  16. "podcast" - https://www.wsj.com/podcasts/the-journal/the-facebook-files-part-3-this-shouldnt-happen-on-facebook/0ec75bcc-5290-4ca5-8b7c-84bdce7eb11f
  17. "How Facebook Hobbled Mark Zuckerberg's Bid to Get America Vaccinated" - https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-mark-zuckerberg-vaccinated-11631880296
  18. "archive" - https://archive.is/sG2y2
  19. "Facebook's Effort to Attract Preteens Goes Beyond Instagram Kids, Documents Show" - https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-instagram-kids-tweens-attract-11632849667
  20. "archive" - https://archive.is/1irka
  21. "podcast" - https://www.wsj.com/podcasts/the-journal/the-facebook-files-part-5-the-push-to-attract-younger-users/ca84a552-9b4e-4f8f-9575-597b4b089062
  22. "Facebook's Documents About Instagram and Teens, Published" - https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-documents-instagram-teens-11632953840
  23. "archive" - https://archive.is/I12y3
  24. "Is Sheryl Sandberg's Power Shrinking? Ten Years of Facebook Data Offers Clues" - https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-employee-data-zuckerberg-sandberg-olivan-11633089498
  25. "archive" - https://archive.is/BUI8j
  26. "The Facebook Whistleblower, Frances Haugen, Says She Wants to Fix the Company, Not Harm It" - https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-whistleblower-frances-haugen-says-she-wants-to-fix-the-company-not-harm-it-11633304122
  27. "archive" - https://archive.is/lxcds
  28. "podcast" - https://www.wsj.com/podcasts/the-journal/the-facebook-files-part-6-the-whistleblower/b311b3d8-b50a-425f-9eb7-12a9c4278acd
  29. "Instagram for Kids and What Facebook Knows About the Effects of Social Media" - https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/instagram-for-kids-and-what-facebook-knows-about-the-effects-of-social-media
  30. "Original Submission #1" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=51735
  31. "Original Submission #2" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=51732

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