{"id":348907,"date":"2021-10-06T05:28:41","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T02:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/whistleblower-blowback-wont-hurt-facebook-goodwin\/"},"modified":"2021-10-06T05:28:41","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T02:28:41","slug":"whistleblower-blowback-wont-hurt-facebook-goodwin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/whistleblower-blowback-wont-hurt-facebook-goodwin\/","title":{"rendered":"#Whistleblower blowback won&#8217;t hurt Facebook: Goodwin"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 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-6a24d4f5662e9\" 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-6a24d4f5662e9\" 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\/whistleblower-blowback-wont-hurt-facebook-goodwin\/#Joes_an_undoer_not_doer\" >Joe\u2019s an undoer, not doer\u00a0<\/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\/whistleblower-blowback-wont-hurt-facebook-goodwin\/#HEADLINE_NASA_will_launch_November_mission_to_deflect_%E2%80%9Cdevastating%E2%80%9D_asteroid_from_hitting_Earth\" >HEADLINE: NASA will launch November mission to deflect \u201cdevastating\u201d asteroid from hitting Earth<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#Whistleblower blowback won&#8217;t hurt <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a>: Goodwin<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--columnist inline-module--author\">\n<div class=\"inline-module--author__img\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"76\" height=\"69\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/michael-goodwin1.png?w=76&amp;h=69&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-nyp_columnist size-nyp_columnist\" alt=\"Michael Goodwin\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/michael-goodwin1.png 76w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/michael-goodwin1.png?w=38 38w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 76px) 100vw, 76px\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> that the Facebook whistleblower would tell her story to Congress electrified Washington and the tech giant\u2019s critics. Senators from both parties were salivating and whistleblower Frances Haugen didn\u2019t dis<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>oint, with an incisive condemnation of how her former employer knowingly enticed children and young teens in an insatiable dash for cash.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no accountability\u201d for Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook\u2019s founder and CEO, said Haugen, who believes the company repeatedly lied about the content of its internal \u00adresearch.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She released documents showing Facebook hid Instagram\u2019s negative effects on teens\u2019 mental health and revealed how it exempts popular \u00adusers from rules, failed to block drug cartels and human traffickers from its platforms and said America\u2019s \u00adnational security was jeopardized.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe documents I have provided to Congress prove that Facebook has repeatedly misled the public,\u201d Haugen said. \u201cI came forward at great personal risk because I believe we still have time to act.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She was a compelling witness, and having told her story first to The Wall Street Journal and then \u201c60 Minutes,\u201d Haugen was able to shape her testimony into a simple morality play about good and evil rather than present confusing data and jargon about algorithms. It made for captivating television, and the \u00adbipartisan amen chorus in Congress would lead any mildly informed observer to believe that Congress is about to drop the hammer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>All the years of huffing and puffing about Big Tech\u2019s abuses, then doing nothing, would come to an end because Haugen had delivered the goods. Finally, the company had gone too far and Congress would punish it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/goodwin-facebook-132.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Haugen testified that there is no accountability for Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg.\" class=\"wp-image-19709535\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/goodwin-facebook-132.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/goodwin-facebook-132.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/goodwin-facebook-132.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Haugen testified that there is no accountability for Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP Photo\/Mark Lennihan, FIle<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Or maybe not. Because even as she was laying bare some of the dirty \u00adsecrets, investors weighed in with their own verdict by buying Facebook stock and driving up the price. Whatever Congress is going to do, if anything, Wall Street apparently doesn\u2019t think it will have much of an impact on profits, which hit a staggering $30 billion last year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The day offered a perfect snapshot of America\u2019s love-hate relationship with Facebook and its subsidiaries, including Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger. Indeed, the wailing over the six-hour outage the company suffered Monday confirmed not just the addictive quality for some of its nearly 3 billion users, but also the fact that advertisers and many businesses, especially small ones, are \u00adutterly dependent on Facebook\u2019s platforms to reach the public.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Wall Street reacted to Monday\u2019s outage by selling the stock, knowing the shutdown would directly hit the bottom line. That hit scared investors far more than anything Congress might do, with the stock recovering Tuesday much of what it lost Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/goodwin-facebook-138.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Facebook's stock price actually went up despite Haugen's testimony.\" class=\"wp-image-19709548\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/goodwin-facebook-138.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/goodwin-facebook-138.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/goodwin-facebook-138.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Facebook\u2019s stock price actually went up despite Haugen\u2019s testimony.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Photo Illustration by Rafael Henrique\/SOPA Images\/LightRocket via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The result is that, despite Haugen\u2019s bold move to pull back the curtains, there is no universal confidence that Congress will take big action. It is more likely the headline risk of her claims will soon fade, just as it has after many previous accusations.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After all, Zuckerberg has testified on numerous occasions and left many in Congress furious with his evasive, filibustering answers. Yet nothing but hot air followed, and several senators actually complained Tuesday that lobbyists for the company and other tech firms had succeeded in buying off their colleagues. Naturally, no names were mentioned.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Although the Journal probably will win a Pulitzer and other prizes for its coverage, the likelihood that the past will be prologue when it comes to major regulation reflects two larger truths about American society.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The first is that, in too many areas, the nation is paralyzed in the face of large problems and public polarization. In this case, Congress\u2019 inability to act even when most members say it must reflects the complexity not only of Facebook\u2019s technical operations, but its <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a> popularity.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not too big to regulate, it\u2019s too popular and too important in the lives of many users and businesses.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Although Haugen and others compared it to cigarette makers, going after deceptive tobacco companies was much easier because cigarette sales were declining and the connection to certain cancers was clear. Face\u00adbook, on the other hand, continues to grow at phenomenal rates, routinely producing revenue increases of more than 25 percent a year, and its harmful effects are not as documented or obvious.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/goodwin-facebook-135.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Haugen compared Facebook to harmful tobacco companies.\" class=\"wp-image-19709556\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/goodwin-facebook-135.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/goodwin-facebook-135.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/goodwin-facebook-135.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Haugen compared Facebook to harmful tobacco companies.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Photo By Tom Williams\/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Haugen\u2019s testimony about children also raises the uncomfortable issue for politicians of parental control, or the lack of it. Beating up on an imperious global behemoth and its snotty, multibillionaire CEO is good politics, but urging parents, schools and others to help kids break their Facebook and Instagram habits could be career suicide.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>In effect, the demand for Congress to do something lets parents and families off the hook, and once again makes it seem as if America will rise or fall depending only on what government will do. When did we all become so feeble and helpless?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For its part, Facebook knows it has the upper hand, which is why it has been so brazen in giving Congress the runaround. Even after Haugen\u2019s damning testimony, a company statement belittled her experience and said she had answered six different times that she had no direct knowledge of certain corporate functions she was asked about.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Then the statement, echoing Clint Eastwood\u2019s challenge in \u201cDirty Harry\u201d to \u201cmake my day,\u201d kicked the can back to Congress and actually dared it to regulate the company.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe agree on one thing; it\u2019s time to create standard rules for the Internet,\u201d the statement said. \u201cInstead of expecting the industry to make societal decisions that belong to legislators, it\u2019s time for Congress to act.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Take that, big talkers!<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Joes_an_undoer_not_doer\"><\/span>Joe\u2019s an undoer, not doer\u00a0<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Two readers, one a doctor, believe I\u2019ve misdiagnosed Joe Biden.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lily Rocha, identifying herself as an M.D., writes: \u201cYour Sunday column as always was interesting but the basis of your argument was flawed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>\u201cJoe Biden is not weak and does not cave in. When he is not regressing into a dementia episode, he is displaying true psychopathic behavior. I know this as a physician.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe knows exactly what he is doing. He knows the harm he is causing with every failure in his presidency but does not care.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA true psychopath keeps destroying institutions and people with no remorse. That is Biden\u2019s legacy.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>John Pugmire offers another twist, writing, \u201cBiden is certainly befuddled, but he is not weak. He showed it when he overruled his generals on the Afghan withdrawal.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has an iron will when it comes to executing one simple idea: undo everything that Trump accomplished.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"HEADLINE_NASA_will_launch_November_mission_to_deflect_%E2%80%9Cdevastating%E2%80%9D_asteroid_from_hitting_Earth\"><\/span>HEADLINE: NASA will launch November mission to deflect \u201cdevastating\u201d asteroid from hitting Earth<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The optimist says:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If the mission fails, global warming and higher taxes won\u2019t be a problem.\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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