FRANCES HAUGEN
Meta turns to AI to protect minors from 'sextortion' on Instagram
Meta said on Thursday it was developing new tools to protect teenage users from "sextortion" scams on its Instagram platform, which has been accused by US politicians of damaging the mental health of youngsters. The legal filing alleged Meta had exploited young users by creating a business model designed to maximise time they spend on the platform despite harm to their health.
Facebook whistleblower launches nonprofit to take on big tech
The new Beyond the Screen nonprofit said that its first project will be to document ways big tech is failing in its "legal and ethical obligations to society" and help come up with ways to solve those problems.
Facebook whistleblower to train lawyers how to fight Big Tech
Frances Haugen, a Facebook employee, who spent the last several months testifying to the US, European and Australian authorities, has secured some early-stage funding from donors.
Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen criticises Meta's metaverse plans
Frances Haugen said Meta has made "very grandiose promises" about the metaverse, but if they didn’t commit to openness, access, and other accountability measures, she could “imagine just seeing a replay of all the problems you see on Facebook."
The Facebook bug and a misinformation flu
A "bug" in Facebook's News Feed injected a "rush of misinformation" and other dangerous content between October and March
US lawmakers introduce bipartisan bill to address social media addiction
Under the bill, the National Science Foundation and National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine would do a study into potential interventions that Facebook or others could use to address problems of social media addiction
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Facebook whistleblower says transparency needed to fix social media ills
People who use the platform in languages other than English are using a "raw, dangerous version of Facebook," Haugen said.
Open Facebook's 'black box', whistleblower Frances Haugen tells house panel
"Facebook wants you to get caught up in a long-drawn-out debate over the minutiae of different legislative approaches," Haugen said.
US state attorneys general probe Instagram's effect on kids
The investigation, involving at least nine US states, comes when Facebook is under scrutiny over its approach to children and young adults in light of the allegations made by whistleblower Frances Haugen.
Beefed up EU tech rules could be global standard, says Facebook whistleblower
EU industry chief Thierry Breton criticised the increased lobbying by technology companies over the draft rules and urged lawmakers fighting over the scope of the DSA to step up their deliberations.
Facebook working on ways to protect users in the 'metaverse': senior exec Nick Clegg
Facebook Inc.'s head of global affairs, Nick Clegg said it could take up to 15 years for the metaverse to come to fruition and there would be time for the company to build in safety and privacy protections.
Unlikely Facebook will change if Mark Zuckerberg remains CEO, whistleblower says
Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen sees no sense in the company’s rebranding as Meta Platforms, given the issues that are yet to be addressed by the Mark Zuckerberg-led social network.
Facebook tells employees to preserve all communications for legal reasons
The move, known as a "legal hold" follows intense media, legal and regulatory scrutiny over the social network's harms.
India seeks info on tech, processes used by Facebook
The missive follows recent revelations by Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen that have "alarmed" the government, specifically with regard to the India experiment, where a dummy user's feed was filled with fake news and hate speech.
Facebook faces a PR crisis. What about a legal one?
The ‘Facebook Papers’ leaked by whistleblower Frances Haugen aside, one of the post pressing questions is whether the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) will significantly add to the company’s woes.
Inside the Facebook Files: Five things the leaked documents reveal
The papers show in granular detail that Facebook knows it dominates the arenas it considers central to its fortunes — contradicting its own public assertions and providing potential fuel for antitrust authorities and lawmakers scrutinising Facebook’s sway over the market.
Facebook will fuel violent unrest around the world, whistleblower Frances Haugen says
"The events we're seeing around the world, things like Myanmar and Ethiopia, those are the opening chapters because engagement-based ranking does two things: one, it prioritises and amplifies divisive and polarising extreme content and two it concentrates it," Haugen said.
Facebook profits rise amid revelations from leaked papers
Facebook’s net income grew 17% in the July-September period to $9.19 billion, buoyed by strong advertising revenue. That's up from $7.85 billion a year earlier. Revenue grew 35% to $29.01 billion.
Facebook will fuel further unrest, whistleblower says
Haugen, a former product manager on Facebook's civic misinformation team who has turned whistleblower, appeared before a parliamentary select committee in Britain that is examining plans to regulate social media companies.
Facebook’s 2019 India experiment paints damning picture of gore, fake news
Among the trove of documents released by Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen is a 46-page research note on Facebook's India experiment in February 2019 that exposed a tester to a maelstrom of fake news and incendiary images.
Changing Facebook's name will not deter lawmaker or regulatory scrutiny, experts say
Facebook is battling intense scrutiny after a whistleblower leaked thousands of internal documents that showed it contributed to increased polarization online when it made changes to its content algorithm.
US senator asks Facebook CEO to retain documents linked to testimony
Senate Commerce Committee Chair Maria Cantwell asked Facebook to preserve and retain internal Facebook research referenced by Haugen and Facebook's evaluation of the research; ranking or composition systems and the impact of Facebook's platforms on children.
Facebook's oversight board to meet with whistleblower Frances Haugen
Haugen revealed last week she was the person who provided documents used in a Wall Street Journal investigation and a Senate hearing on Instagram's harm to teenage girls.
After whistleblower goes public, Facebook tries calming employees
To counter Frances Haugen's claims — which were backed by internal documents that showed Facebook’s services hurt some children’s self-esteem and abetted human trafficking — executives have conducted live internal events with employees.
Could Facebook sue whistleblower Frances Haugen?
US law protects whistleblowers who disclose information about potential misconduct to the government. But that protection doesn't necessarily cover taking corporate secrets to the media.
Who is Facebook whistleblower, Frances Haugen?
Earlier this month, American daily - The Wall Street Journal - published a series of articles about social media giant, Facebook, based on information from a whistleblower, who later revealed their identity on the show “60 Minutes”
Facebook disputes claims of inadequate flagging of vernacular content
The company has disputed this saying it uses technology to proactively detect hate speech in the two languages as well as have reviewers flagging such content in 20 Indian languages.
Facebook an 'urgent threat' to US, whistleblower Frances Haugen to tell Congress
"The core of the issue is that no one can understand Facebook's destructive choices better than Facebook, because only Facebook gets to look under the hood," whistleblower Frances Haugen says in a written testimony prepared for the hearing.
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