The Verge :Facebook and Instagram 'stoke division and weaken our democracy,' whistleblower testifies 60 Minutes :Facebook Whistleblower Frances Haugen : The 60 Minutes Interview FORTUNE : In countries where Facebook is the Internet , the mass outage crippled the digital economy Netflix :The Socia...
However, in an interview with “60 Minutes” on Sunday prior to her testimony, Haugen said therewere “systemic” problems with the social media’s algorithms and Facebook’s willingness to allow “angry content” and misinformation to spread and be promoted for its own gain. “Facebook’s m...
Following the Sunday "60 Minutes" interview with the whistleblower, identified as Frances Haugen, a data scientist, the company put out a statement defending itself. "We've invested heavily in people and technology to keep our platform safe, and have made fighting misinformation and providing auth...
At issue is a stunning 60 Minutes interview with former Facebook employer Frances Haugen, who outed herself as the whistleblower behind a Wall Street Journal report from earlier in the week that revealed Facebook’s private acknowledgment their product was damaging young users. But the...
In a 60 Minutes interview, WSJ's Facebook Files whistleblower says Facebook is misleading the public on progress against hate speech, misinformation, and more More: New York Times, Washington Post, ABC News, CyberScoop, The Verge, New York Times, CNN, The Guardian, Politico, Associated Press...
a former Facebook product manager, provided The Wall Street Journal with internal documents that exposed the company’s awareness of harms caused by its products and decisions. Haugen went public on CBS’s “60 Minutes” program Sunday and is scheduled to testify before a Senate subcommittee Tuesd...
In a ‘60 Minutes’ interview aired Sunday, Haugen said the company’s own research showed how it amplified hatred and misinformation, a fact which she had previously leaked to the press. She also alleged that the company prematurely turned off safeguards aimed at preventing misinformation related...
The FCC requested footage and a transcript of 60 Minutes' Kamala Harris interview as it reviews the Paramount-Skydance merger; CBS News is working to comply Michael Luciano / Mediaite: Memo: the Pentagon evicts the NYT, NBC News, NPR, and Politico from Pentagon offices and offers the worksp...
Join Creative Good OK, first to review the news. What’s happened so far: •Sunday:60 Minutes ran an interview with whistleblower Frances Haugen, who played a key role in the WSJ’s Facebook Files (which I wrote abouttwo weeks ago). ...
The FCC requested footage and a transcript of 60 Minutes' Kamala Harris interview as it reviews the Paramount-Skydance merger; CBS News is working to comply Tracey Tully / New York Times: The Star-Ledger, NJ's longtime paper of record, will publish its final edition on Sunday and become ...