Yes, they think we’re this stupid…
‘The internet needs regulating’: Facebook calls on legislators to create ‘standard rules’ for the web but hits out at whistleblower Frances Haugen saying she never met with top executives
- Facebook said that Haugen never attended meetings with executives and that she was wildly misinformed
- Zuckerbeg said: ‘most of us just don’t recognize the false picture of the company that is being painted’
- In her blistering testimony, Haugen said Zuckerberg was ‘only accountable to himself’
- She warned that the CEO was directly involved in decisions that had boosted ‘misinformation, hate speech’
- The 37-year-old said the algorithm rewards ‘dangerous online talk has led to actual violence that kills people’
- Senators from across the aisle rebuked Facebook and CEO Zuckerberg, with one calling it ‘morally bankrupt’
- Facebook’s director of policy communications, Lena Pietsch, admitted that the internet needed reform
- She hit back against Congress, saying it was up to them to make ‘societal decisions that belong to legislators’
Facebook has admitted that the ‘internet needs regulating’ and called on lawmakers to impose ‘standard rules’ but has hit back against claims by whistleblower Frances Haugen that it puts profits over the safety of its users.
The tech giant slapped down Haugen after she testified to Congress on Tuesday, saying that the data scientist never attended meetings with top executives and that she was wildly misinformed about the company.