Ex-Facebook manager alleges social network fed Capitol riot

[asaratis]

Now who would have thought that Facebook would promote divisiveness? <sarc<

Facebook contributed to the instigation of the Jan 6 'insurrection' by promoting misinformation and divisiveness, beginning shortly after Biden was confirmed to have 'won' the 2020 election.

Clearly, Facebook is not interested in truth. Facebook book is a useful and effective arm of the Democrat Party of socialism/Marxism/communism.

“Facebook, over and over again, has shown it chooses profit over safety,” she said. Haugen, who will testify before Congress this week, said she hopes that by coming forward the government will put regulations in place to govern the company’s activities.

I do hope this will be televised.

Whistleblower: Facebook chose profit over public safety

Facebook prematurely turned off safeguards designed to thwart misinformation and rabble rousing after Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump in last year’s elections in a moneymaking move that a company whistleblower alleges contributed to the deadly Jan. 6 invasion of the U.S.

apnews.com

She said Facebook prematurely turned off safeguards designed to thwart misinformation and rabble rousing after Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump last year, alleging that contributed to the deadly Jan. 6 invasion of the U.S. Capitol.

Post-election, the company dissolved a unit on civic integrity where she had been working, which Haugen said was the moment she realized “I don’t trust that they’re willing to actually invest what needs to be invested to keep Facebook from being dangerous.”

At issue are algorithms that govern what shows up on users’ news feeds, and how they favor hateful content. Haugen said a 2018 change to the content flow contributed to more divisiveness and ill will in a network ostensibly created to bring people closer together.

Despite the enmity that the new algorithms were feeding, Facebook found that they helped keep people coming back — a pattern that helped the Menlo Park, California, social media giant sell more of the digital ads that generate most of its advertising.

Facebook’s annual revenue has more than doubled from $56 billion in 2018 to a projected $119 billion this year, based on the estimates of analysts surveyed by FactSet. Meanwhile, the company’s market value has soared from $375 billion at the end of 2018 to nearly $1 trillion now.
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[Harpy Eagle]

A data scientist who was revealed Sunday as the Facebook whistleblower says that whenever there was a conflict between the public good and what benefited the company, the social media giant would choose its own interests.

What company does not do this?

 

[asaratis]

A data scientist who was revealed Sunday as the Facebook whistleblower says that whenever there was a conflict between the public good and what benefited the company, the social media giant would choose its own interests.

What company does not do this?

Any company with higher ethical standards than those of Facebook regarding public good vs profit.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

Any company with higher ethical standards than those of Facebook regarding public good vs profit.

can you give some examples?

 

[dblack]

The main thing is, government really wants a piece of the action. Regulations, posthaste!