{"id":370543,"date":"2021-11-22T00:19:43","date_gmt":"2021-11-21T21:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/facebook-critics-love-whistleblower-frances-haugens-leaks-but-hate-her-policy-ideas\/"},"modified":"2021-11-22T00:19:43","modified_gmt":"2021-11-21T21:19:43","slug":"facebook-critics-love-whistleblower-frances-haugens-leaks-but-hate-her-policy-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/facebook-critics-love-whistleblower-frances-haugens-leaks-but-hate-her-policy-ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"#Facebook critics love whistleblower Frances Haugen\u2019s leaks but hate her policy ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a> critics love whistleblower Frances Haugen\u2019s leaks but hate her policy ideas<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Facebook critics have a Frances Haugen problem: Many love that the whistleblower leaked a trove of documents exposing many of the tech giant\u2019s worst problems \u2014 but hate her ideas on how to solve them.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Haugen has repeatedly insisted that breaking up Meta Platforms \u2014 the company that owns Facebook, Instagram and Whats<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>, and which changed its name from Facebook last month amid a torrent of bad press \u2014 will not solve the issues she has helped uncover. Those include Instagram\u2019s toxic effects on teen mental health and the company\u2019s struggles to crack down on human trafficking.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Instead, Haugen has insisted in interviews and in Congressional testimony that the company\u2019s woes are mainly the result of poor leadership under Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg, who has deployed algorithms that run its social-networking apps to incentivize engagement at any cost.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese systems are going to continue to exist and be dangerous even if broken up,\u201d Haugen told Congress in October. <\/p>\n<p>Such comments have left bad tastes in the mouths of many Meta critics, who initially praised Haugen\u2019s leaks as a breakthrough as they seek to hold Facebook accountable for its increasingly outsize power.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe turned over the documents \u2014 great,\u201d Mike Davis, head of the conservative anti-Big Tech group the Internet Accountability Project, told The Post. \u201cThank you for your service. Now go away.\u201d\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\/11\/Mark-Zuckerberg4.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Mark Zuckerberg in a jacket and tie\" class=\"wp-image-20181084\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/Mark-Zuckerberg4.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/Mark-Zuckerberg4.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/Mark-Zuckerberg4.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s Facebook changed its name to Meta in October amid a torrent of bad press.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cShe\u2019s not a policy expert, especially not in antitrust,\u201d said Davis, who previously worked for Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and supports a slate of House antitrust bills, including one that could break up Meta, Google and other big tech firms.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Instead of slicing the company into pieces, Haugen told lawmakers that the government should leave Meta whole and create a new regulator that would be able to request company data and force changes to its algorithms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere needs to be a regulatory home where someone like me could do a tour of duty after working at a place like this,\u201d Haugen said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Haugen doubled down on the idea in a <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vogue.com\/article\/facebook-whistleblower-frances-haugen-interview\">Vogue interview<\/a> on Tuesday, saying that calls to break up the company are \u201cso reductive\u201d and could even violate the first amendment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt which point, the way we will get change is if, like, we have 18-year-olds having dance parties outside Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s house,\u201d added Haugen in the interview, which was accompanied by a photoshoot.\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\/11\/Frances-Haugen4.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Frances Haugen testifying\" class=\"wp-image-20181103\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/Frances-Haugen4.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/Frances-Haugen4.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/Frances-Haugen4.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>\u201cThank you for your service. Now go away,\u201d Mike Davis of the conservative Internet Accountability Project said of Frances Haugen. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>But Haugen\u2019s belief that Meta\u2019s harms do not inherently come from its size but rather from its leadership and a lack of oversight is misguided, according to Matt Stoller, an antitrust expert and former adviser to Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT). <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe documents were useful but she\u2019s not relevant,\u201d Stoller told The Post, adding that Haugen \u201cdoesn\u2019t really have any understanding of the core problem.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe basically agrees with Mark Zuckerberg,\u201d he added. \u201cShe wants Mark Zuckerberg to be nicer.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A prominent Republican lobbyist also slammed Haugen, arguing that opening Facebook up to greater competition would help address issues including Instagram\u2019s negative effects on teens. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHaugen and her largely Democratic supporters are looking at the wrong solution,\u201d the lobbyist told The Post.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe do not need a super speech regulator,\u201d the lobbyist added. \u201cWe need to solve the market power problem.\u201d<\/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\/11\/Facebook_Papers_House_of_Cards.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Facebook logo\" class=\"wp-image-20181128\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/Facebook_Papers_House_of_Cards.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/Facebook_Papers_House_of_Cards.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/Facebook_Papers_House_of_Cards.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Facebook could be forced to sell off assets like Instagram and WhatsApp if its most stringent critics get their way.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Influential digital rights group the Electronic Frontier Foundation, meanwhile, has sought to thread the needle by using Haugen\u2019s testimony to bolster their case for breaking up the company without acknowledging that she opposes the idea. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cFacebook\u2019s broken system is fueled by a growth-at-any-cost model, as indicated by some of the testimony Haugen delivered to Congress,\u201d the group <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2021\/11\/after-facebook-leaks-here-what-should-come-next\">wrote<\/a> in November. \u201cIn other words, Facebook\u2019s badness is inextricably tied to its bigness.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cRequiring Facebook to divest Instagram, WhatsApp, and possibly other acquisitions and limiting the companies\u2019 future mergers and acquisitions would go a long way toward solving some of the problems with the company, and inject competition into a field where it\u2019s been stifled for many years now,\u201d the Electronic Frontier Foundation added.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/Frances-Haugen2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Frances Haugen\" class=\"wp-image-20209842\" width=\"618\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/Frances-Haugen2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1233 1236w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/Frances-Haugen2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=925 927w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/Frances-Haugen2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=618 618w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/Frances-Haugen2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=308 309w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/Frances-Haugen2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 618px) 100vw, 618px\"\/><figcaption>\u201cThese systems are going to continue to exist and be dangerous even if broken up,\u201d Haugen told Congress in October. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Meta and Bill Burton, a former Obama administration communications staffer who represents Haugen, did not respond to requests for comment.\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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