Whistleblower: "Almost no one outside of Facebook knows what happens inside Facebook'

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🗓️ 5 October 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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The Facebook whistleblower who released tens of thousands of pages of internal research and documents said the social media company could “destroy her for speaking out.” Frances Haugan said she came forward because "I recognized a frightening truth: almost no one outside of Facebook knows what happens inside Facebook." Haugen's lawyer John Tye tells Anderson Cooper "there are actually a few very simple changes that Facebook could make to its algorithm that would have marginal impacts on growth" but "would have huge impacts on the spread of misinformation, conspiracy theories, violent and inciting content." Plus, New York Times Washington Correspondent and CNN Political Analyst Maggie Haberman joins AC360 to discuss whether or not former President Trump is going to run for President again in 2024. Airdate: October 4, 2021 Guests: John Tye Maggie Haberman To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Good evening, the lawyer for Facebook Whistleblower, Francis Hogan joins us tonight on the eve
0:05.7	of her testimony before Senate subcommittee.
0:08.2	And perhaps it was just a coincidence, but today the world's largest social network
0:11.8	went down.
0:12.8	Facebook and Facebook owned Instagram and WhatsApp were all unreachable for much of the day,
0:17.6	prompting one Twitter user to write half jokingly, Instagram and Facebook are currently not
0:22.0	working as our democracy society in a healthy sense of self.
0:26.4	Except it's no joke, according to the Whistleblower in question.
0:28.8	Former Facebook employee, Francis Hogan, who revealed herself last night on CBS News
0:32.6	is 60 minutes.
0:35.0	When we live in an information environment that is full of angry, hateful, polarizing
0:39.8	content, it erodes our civic trust, it erodes our faith in each other, it erodes our
0:45.6	ability to want to care for each other.
0:49.0	The version of Facebook that exists today is tearing our societies apart and causing
0:53.8	ethnic violence around the world.
0:57.1	Making our society apart, no joke and no accident, she says, she's got evidence or documents
1:01.8	to go with that claim.
1:03.5	How can left Facebook and may, taking with her a trove internal company document, which
1:07.4	she sent to lawmakers, federal regulators and the Wall Street Journal on the program last
1:12.6	night, CBS has scott pel a quoted one of those documents.
1:17.6	We have evidence from a variety of sources that hate speech, divisive political speech,
1:24.2	and misinformation on Facebook and the family of apps are affecting societies around the
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