“I believe that Facebook’s products harm children, stoke division, weaken our democracy and much more.'
Former Facebook employee Frances Haugen will say that the social networking giant needs Congress to enforce more transparency from the company when she testifies Tuesday at a Senate hearing.
Haugen, 37, a former product manager on Facebook's civic misinformation team, said that effective regulation of Facebook would need to start with transparency, including allowing “full access to data for research not directed by Facebook.”Former Facebook employee Frances Haugen is testifying before a Senate subcommittee about what she says are problems at the social media company that "harm children" and "stoke division.
The hearing comes one day after a Facebook global outage, which has not been connected to Haugen coming forward to share internal documents from the company. “As long as Facebook is operating in the dark, it is accountable to no one,” she will say. Haugen previously worked at Google, Pinterest and Yelp.
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