'Doing the worst of all worlds': Facebook whistleblower takes new shot at Zuckerberg
The woman who provided Congress with reams of documentation in 2021showing Facebook (now Meta) was more interested in profits over user safety, took some potshots at founder Mark Zuckerberg in a new interview published on Thursday.
Speaking with the Guardian's Dan Milmo and Robert Booth, Frances Haugen admitted she was unsurprised that Zuckerberg decided to pull the plug on mandating fact-checking on the social media platform that likely pleased Donald Trump.
According to Haugen, the Meta chairman saw which way the wind was blowing with Trump winning re-election in 2024 and made his new policy announcement earlier this week to get on the president-elect's good side.
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"The announcement from Mark is him basically saying: ‘Hey I heard the message, we will not intervene in the United States,’” Haugen told the Guardian while stating, "What Trump wants is for Facebook to step back and not intervene, because Maga knows how to rile up social media. And so it’s not just about content; it’s about behaviour, too."
According to the whistleblower, lack of moderation and fact-checking are not the only problems, with the Guardian report stating she said the social media giant should "... focus more on adjusting the algorithms that served content to users and being transparent about how those algorithms worked."
"They’re kind of doing the worst of all worlds. They’re not doing any of those actual holistic changes, and they’re cutting what little safety systems they did have,” she lamented.
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