Spotlight — A Whirlwind Week of Whistleblowing

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🗓️ 6 October 2021

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

In seven years of working on the problems of runaway technology, we’ve never experienced a week like this! In this bonus episode of Your Undivided Attention, we recap this whirlwind of a week — from Facebook whistleblower France Haugen going public on 60 Minutes on Sunday, to the massive outage of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp on Monday, to Haugen’s riveting Congressional testimony on Tuesday. We also make some exciting announcements — including our planned episode with Haugen up next, the Yale social media reform panel we’re participating in on Thursday, and a campaign we’re launching to pressure Facebook to make one immediate change. This week it truly feels like we’re making history — and you’re a part of it.

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0:00.0	Wow, for the last seven years working on social media and the problems of runaway technology
0:07.3	I do not think I have experienced a week like this
0:12.0	No, this has been one of those I am experiencing history hour by hour
0:16.4	But for those of you who are new or if you've been here for years
0:19.2	We're going to recap this week and announce a very exciting next episode
0:23.5	This is your undivided attention a podcast from the Center for Humane Technology
0:29.1	And many of you may know us from the film the social dilemma on Netflix, which was released about a year ago
0:34.9	But we have both I think not seen as much change and
0:40.8	Sort of turning upside down
0:42.8	The world of the possibility of regulating social media companies and specifically Facebook as we have in the last three days
0:51.4	Let's talk about the whirlwind of the last few days. So Sunday
0:56.2	60 minutes all attentions on Facebook as Francis Hogan names herself as the Facebook whistleblower
1:02.6	She's from the civic integrity team to bombshell interview and we're all wondering what's going to happen next when on
1:09.3	Monday
1:10.3	Facebook
1:11.3	Instagram and WhatsApp go down we don't know what's happening
1:15.3	It appears from tweets that Facebook employers are locked out of their own building their badges don't work
1:21.2	And then on Tuesday
1:23.0	We woke up and Francis testified in front of the Senate for three hours
1:29.1	Incredibly clear incredibly poised and a really incredible moment for me was when Senator Markey said Francis
1:36.6	You are a 21st century American hero and in that moment my eyes got really wet
1:43.9	Yeah, I was in New York City and woke up in the morning to watch Francis's testimony
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