The Facebook Whistle-Blower Testifies

The Daily

The New York Times

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4.4 • 102.8K Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

The Senate testimony of Frances Haugen on Tuesday was an eagerly awaited event. Last month, Ms. Haugen, a former Facebook product manager, leaked internal company documents to The Wall Street Journal that exposed the social media giant’s inner workings. How will Ms. Haugen’s insights shape the future of internet regulation? Guest: Sheera Frenkel, a technology reporter for The New York Times.

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0:44.8	Harmful, dangerous and toxic.
0:47.0	That's how The Wall Street Journal describes Facebook and its new investigative series,
0:51.0	The Facebook Files.
0:52.8	Last month, The Wall Street Journal released a trove of internal documents from Facebook.
0:58.3	The Wall Street Journal had reported an internal document from a Facebook presentation that
1:01.8	said this, our algorithms exploit the human brain's attraction to divisiveness.
1:06.8	If left unchecked, it will feed more and more divisive content in an interview.
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1:12.2	How much the company knew about the harm it was causing.
1:15.7	The Wall Street Journal revealed internal Facebook research found one in three teenage
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