{"id":348883,"date":"2021-10-06T02:52:01","date_gmt":"2021-10-05T23:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/5-takeaways-from-facebook-whistleblower-frances-haugens-senate-testimony\/"},"modified":"2021-10-06T02:52:01","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T23:52:01","slug":"5-takeaways-from-facebook-whistleblower-frances-haugens-senate-testimony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/5-takeaways-from-facebook-whistleblower-frances-haugens-senate-testimony\/","title":{"rendered":"#5 takeaways from Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen\u2019s Senate testimony"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3a952d3e0af\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3a952d3e0af\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/5-takeaways-from-facebook-whistleblower-frances-haugens-senate-testimony\/#Instagram_and_teen_girls\" >Instagram and teen girls<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/5-takeaways-from-facebook-whistleblower-frances-haugens-senate-testimony\/#Facebook_and_national_security\" >Facebook and national security<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/5-takeaways-from-facebook-whistleblower-frances-haugens-senate-testimony\/#Focus_on_algorithms\" >Focus on algorithms<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/5-takeaways-from-facebook-whistleblower-frances-haugens-senate-testimony\/#Wheres_Zuck\" >Where\u2019s Zuck?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/5-takeaways-from-facebook-whistleblower-frances-haugens-senate-testimony\/#Facebook_brings_Democrats_and_Republicans_together\" >Facebook brings Democrats and Republicans together<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#5 takeaways from <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a> whistleblower Frances Haugen\u2019s Senate testimony<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n        <\/aside>\n<p>Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen testified in front of a key Senate subcommittee on Tuesday, sounding the alarm about everything from Instagram\u2019s effect on teen girls to the national security threats posed by Facebook.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She said the company needs to declare \u201cmoral bankruptcy.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Prior to her three-hour long testimony, Haugen sent thousands of internal Facebook documents to lawmakers, who are pushing a slate of bills to reign in the tech giant and calling on Mark Zuckerberg himself to testify under oath.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Here are five main takeaways from her testimony: \u00a0<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Instagram_and_teen_girls\"><\/span><strong>Instagram and teen girls<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Teen girls on Instagram face a barrage of harmful content, including images promoting anorexia and other body image disorders. Since Instagram\u2019s algorithms prey on vulnerabilities and teens have poor impulse control, they keep coming to the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a> even though it makes them feel worse about themselves, according to Haugen.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This finding is backed up by documents she leaked to the Wall Street Journal, which include an internal Facebook presentation from March 2020 stating that \u201c32 percent of teen girls said that when they felt bad about their bodies, Instagram made them feel worse.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>\u201cInstagram is about bodies, and about comparing lifestyles,\u201d said Haugen, arguing that the photo sharing app is worse for teens than competitors TikTok and Snapchat.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook has said that the Instagram study was taken out of context and that the app does more good than harm for teenage girls and other users by connecting them with friends. The company has also questioned Haugen\u2019s credibility by saying she didn\u2019t work for the Instagram or child safety teams while at Facebook.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/facebook-whistleblower.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Frances Haugen testifying\" class=\"wp-image-19705563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/facebook-whistleblower.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/facebook-whistleblower.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/facebook-whistleblower.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Haugen sent thousands of internal Facebook documents to lawmakers ahead of her testimony.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Drew Angerer\/Pool via EPA<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Facebook_and_national_security\"><\/span><strong>Facebook and national security<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>While a Facebook employee from June 2019 to May 2021, Haugen spent time working on the company\u2019s counterespionage team. Through this work, she said she saw China using Facebook to surveil Uyghur dissidents and Iran using the platform for espionage.<\/p>\n<p>Haugen accused Facebook of not taking threats like these seriously enough.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe Facebook\u2019s consistent understaffing of the counterespionage information operations and counterterrorism teams is a national security issue, and I\u2019m speaking to other parts of Congress about that,\u201d she said. \u201cI believe the fact that Congress doesn\u2019t get a report of exactly how many people are working on these things internally is unacceptable because you have a right to keep the American people safe.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>\u201cI have strong national security concerns about how Facebook operates today,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) said the Senate subcommittee where Haugen testified Tuesday may ask the whistleblower to come back again for another hearing specifically focused on national security issues.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Focus_on_algorithms\"><\/span><strong>Focus on algorithms<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Facebook and Instagram prominently display posts that contain clickbait and extreme content, incentivizing users to interact and respond, Haugen said. This system, called \u201cengagement-based ranking,\u201d keeps users hooked but encourages the spread of misinformation and hate speech, the whistleblower said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Haugen said she would support rules requiring social media companies to display content in the order they were posted, which she says would fix these issues.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The whistleblower also said that ongoing efforts to break up Facebook by forcing the company to sell of Instagram or WhatsApp would not solve her problems with the company because they would not lead to algorithm changes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Facebook has said that it has tweaked its algorithms to decrease the spread of hate speech and misinformation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/blumenthal.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Sen. Richard Blumenthal\" class=\"wp-image-19705593\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/blumenthal.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/blumenthal.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/blumenthal.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) said the Senate subcommittee Haugen testified before on Tuesday may ask her to come back for another hearing specifically focused on national security issues.\u00a0<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Drew Angerer\/Pool via AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Wheres_Zuck\"><\/span><strong>Where\u2019s Zuck?<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been conspicuously absent over the past month as Haugen\u2019s leaks were reported in the press. <\/p>\n<p>As the <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/the-facebook-files-11631713039\">Wall Street Journal published a series of damning articles<\/a> about Instagram\u2019s effect on teen girls and Facebook\u2019s failure to track down drug dealers and sex traffickers, among other issues, Zuckerberg embraced watersports. <\/p>\n<p>His only response to the Journal articles was a bad joke about a surfboard. On Sunday \u2014 the same day Haugen revealed her identity in an interview with 60 minutes \u2014 Zuckerberg posted on Facebook about going sailing. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cRather than taking responsibility and showing leadership, Mr. Zuckerberg is going sailing,\u201d Blumenthal said during the hearing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/09\/21\/technology\/zuckerberg-facebook-project-amplify.html\">The New York Times reported<\/a> in September that Zuckerberg has decided to distance himself from scandals by apologizing less and letting surrogates take flak. That plan appeared to be in full effect last week, when Facebook sent its lesser-known chief of global security, Antigone Davis, to testify in front of the same Senate subcommittee that hosted Haugen. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/blackburn.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Sen. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee\" class=\"wp-image-19705579\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/blackburn.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/blackburn.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/blackburn.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>\u201cRather than taking responsibility and showing leadership, Mr. Zuckerberg is going sailing,\u201d said Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) during the hearing.\u00a0<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Drew Angerer\/Pool via EPA<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Facebook_brings_Democrats_and_Republicans_together\"><\/span><strong>Facebook brings Democrats and Republicans together<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>As Democrats and Republicans squabble over spending bills and the debt ceiling, hating Facebook is the rare topic both parties can agree on. Politicians from both parties have no problem laying into the company, especially when it comes to Instagram\u2019s effect on teen girls. <\/p>\n<p>But despite a variety of bipartisan legislation floating around in Congress calling for everything from algorithm tweaks to outright breaking up Facebook, there does not seem to be a clear consensus about what bills can actually pass. <\/p>\n<p>Haugen suggested several potential steps Congress could take, including requiring Facebook to release its internal research and creating an independent government oversight group run by former tech workers who understand technical issues.\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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