Whistleblower piles pressure on Facebook
Tech Life
BBC
4.3 • 227 Ratings
🗓️ 29 October 2021
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Frances Haugen tells a British parliamentary committee that the social giant’s engagement algorithm puts users at risk of harm. Plus we get a view from India, where the platform stands accused of allowing dangerous misinformation to spread. Presented by Rory Cellan-Jones, with senior BBC tech reporter Jane Wakefield and BBC technology editor Zoe Kleinman.
Producer: Jat Gill
(Photo: Frances Haugen, former product manager on Facebook"s civic misinformation team, leaves the Houses of Parliament, London. Credit: Henry Nicholls/Reuters)
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| 0:56.3 | I'm Rory Catalan Jones, and this week you may not be surprised to hear. |
| 0:59.9 | We're focusing on Facebook. |
| 1:02.4 | More revelations have emerged almost daily about the inner workings of the social media giant |
| 1:07.4 | and how some staff feel their concerns about the harm it's caused have been ignored. |
| 1:12.0 | The whistleblower behind many of those stories has been telling a British parliamentary committee |
| 1:15.7 | that Facebook puts profits before everything. The committee's chair will tell us what should |
| 1:20.6 | happen now. And we get a view from India where Facebook stands accused of helping spread dangerous |
| 1:25.9 | misinformation. A third-party fact-checker tells us just how big the problem is. |
| 1:31.8 | Joining me this week are not one but two great BBC colleagues. |
| 1:35.4 | Jane Wakefield is our senior tech reporter. |
| 1:37.7 | How's it going, Jane? |
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