Hear What A Facebook Insider Told Congress About How Its Apps Hurt Kids

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4.5 • 24.9K Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2021

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Former Facebook product manager Frances Haugen told senators that the company knows its products harm children and stoke division, but that executives have continued to prioritize growth over safety.

This episode: White House correspondent Scott Detrow, congressional reporter Claudia Grisales, and tech correspondent Shannon Bond.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Kirsten from Grand Canyon, Arizona.
0:02.6	Yes, that Grand Canyon.
0:04.3	I'm on my lunch break from being a park ranger.
0:06.5	This podcast was recorded at.
0:08.3	I assume that has better lunch break views than any other place in the world.
0:12.8	It is a 207 Eastern on Tuesday, October 5th.
0:17.5	Things may have changed by the time you heard it,
0:19.4	but I will still be asking guests to not feed the squirrels.
0:22.4	All right, here's the show.
0:23.8	Hey there, it's the NPR Politics podcast.
0:29.2	I'm Scott Detro.
0:30.0	I cover the White House.
0:31.1	I'm Claudia Gillesselle.
0:32.0	It's like cover Congress.
0:33.2	Claudia, I recently learned the White House is actually a national park as well.
0:37.4	The ground it is on is a national park.
0:39.2	There are squirrels there too.
0:40.6	No one is telling me not to feed the squirrels though.
0:43.1	I know.
0:43.8	I think we have more squirrel freedom here with what we want to do.
0:47.1	Yeah.
0:48.0	Take that.
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