Facebook whistleblower reveals identity, set to appear before Senate subcommittee

instagram and facebook and whatsapp hit by one of their longest ever service outages today lasting several hours the companies did not say what caused the outage it comes as a data scientist from facebook says the company would choose its own interests over yours when it discovered a conflict but the company says the allegations are misleading correspondent alexandria hoff takes a look tonight at the latest controversy concerning the social media giant before she left facebook in may product manager frances haugen secretly made copies of tens of thousands of documents she revealed her identity on 60 minutes as the whistleblower behind the wall street journal's bombshell investigation into facebook's knowledge of the harm done to its users there were conflicts of interest between what was good for the public and what was good for facebook and facebook over and over again chose to optimize for its own interests like making more money haugens says she was frustrated by facebook's lack of action after internal research showed that the platform and affiliated app instagram was dangerous for teens as these young women begin to consume this eating disorder content they get more and more depressed it actually makes them use the app more and so they end up in this feedback cycle where they hate their bodies more and more we're never going to be able to eliminate the the basic human tendency to compare yourself to others in today's white house press briefing press secretary jen saki voiced concern from the biden administration efforts to attract young users and negative effects on teenagers mental health are certainly troubling they're hardly isolated incidents haugen will testify tomorrow before a senate subcommittee hearing titled protecting kids online republican tennessee senator marsha blackburn is the ranking member the fact that they have moved forward putting profit at the head of their list and knowing that they were endangering children those are issues that are of concern in a copy of haugen's written testimony obtained by reuters the harvard grad will liken facebook's practices to that of big tobacco and will press lawmakers to step in take action and regulate reuters is also reporting that senator amy klobuchar plans to ask how facebook's algorithms might promote some of this activity brett we'll follow it alex thanks hey sean hannity here hey click here to subscribe to fox news youtube page and catch our hottest interviews and most compelling analysis you will not get it anywhere else

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Length: 2min 38sec (158 seconds)

Published: Mon Oct 04 2021