WASHINGTON: Whistleblower who shares the assets of Facebook documents that accuse the social media giants to know their products trigger hatred and harm mental health of children reveal their identity on Sunday in an interview broadcast on television, and accuses “the return of salvation.” Frances Haugen, a 37-year-old data scientist from Iowa, has worked for companies including Google and Pinterest – but said in an interview with the CBS News Show “60 minutes” that Facebook “was far worse” than anything he saw before.
He called for the company to be arranged.
“Facebook repeatedly showed that it chose the return on security.
This subsidized, it pays its benefits with our safety,” Haugen said.
“The existing Facebook version is currently tore up our society and causes ethnic violence throughout the world,” he said.
The world’s largest social media platform has been involved in a storm caused by Haugen, which as a whistleblower that is not named shared Wall Street documents and journals that detail how Facebook knows its products, including Instagram, harming young girls.
In the 60-minute interview he explained how the algorithm, which chose what should be shown in the user news feed, optimized for content that was reacted.
Company research itself shows that “it’s easier to inspire people to be angry than other emotions,” Haugen said.
“Facebook has realized that if they change the algorithm to be safer, people will spend less time on the site, they will click a little ad, they will produce less money.” During the 2020 US presidential elections, he said, the company was aware of the danger that such content was presented and turned on the safety system to reduce it.
But “so the election ended, they turned it off again, or they changed the setting back to what they were before, to prioritize security growth, and it really felt like a betrayal of democracy for me,” he said.
“There is no one on Facebook who is evil,” he said, adding that incentives “not in harmony.” “Facebook makes more money when you consume more content …
and the more angry they expose, the more they interact, the more they consume.” Haugen did not draw a straight line between the decision to roll back the US Safety and Riot Capitol system on January 6, although 60 minutes noted that social networks were used by several violent organizers.
The previous week, Facebook was dismissed as a “ridiculous” suggestion contributed to the January 6 riots.
Vice President of the global policy and Facebook FACEBOOK Nick Clegg also loudly pushed back on the platform statement “toxic” for teenagers, days after the congressional hearing which was tense where US Parliament members bake their impact on the mental health of users.
The New York Times reported Saturday that Clegg tried to conduct interviews Haugen before by laughing at the 1,500-word memo to the staff who told them about the accusation of “misleading”.
Clegg pressed the case in appearance at CNN.
“I think the statement (that) January 6 can be explained because social media, I just think it’s ridiculous,” said Clegg to the announcer, said it was a “wrong comfort” to believe that technology estimated American political polarization.
Responsibility for rebellion “is located right with people who protect violence and those who encourage them – including – President Trump” and others who declare the election was stolen, he added.
While everyone “has a bad uncle” or old classmate whose extreme view might be seen on Facebook, Clegg when reported writing in his memo, “Changes to algorithmic rating systems on one social media platform cannot explain broader social polarization.” Facebook has encountered criticism that drives community problems, Clegg’s attack should not rest at the foot of Facebook.
But he acknowledged that people with pre-existing problems may not benefit from the use of social media.
“I don’t think it’s surprisingly intuitively if you feel unwell, that then going to social media can actually make you feel a little worse,” he told CNN.
He also denied reporting in the Journal of Street Street which exploded that Facebook’s own research warned about the damage to the application sharing of Instagram photos could be done for the welfare of teenage girls.
“This is not borne by our research or other people who are bad or toxic to all teenagers,” Clegg said, but adding Facebook research would continue.