“Yesterday we saw that Facebook was down.
I don't know why, but I do know that for more than five hours, Facebook was not used to dig ditches, to destabilize democracies and to make young girls and women feel bad about their bodies ”, launches Frances Haugen to the US Senate Committee on Commerce.
This former engineer of the firm decided to deliver the most obscure details of her old company and to denounce her priorities: "They put their astronomical profits before people".
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The whistleblower, whose face the whole world now knows, called on the American Congress to strengthen the regulation of Facebook, which she accuses in particular of pushing adolescents to use its platforms more and more, at the risk of causing addiction: “We still have time to act.
But we have to do it now, ”urged Frances Haugen, who left Facebook last May after two years with the company.
“Facebook should not be left free to choose growth, virality (…) at the expense of public safety.
(…) They finance their profits with our security ”
The hearing of this 37-year-old engineer comes the day after a gigantic blackout, unprecedented in the history of the group, which decommissioned its four platforms, the social networks Facebook and Instagram, as well as the WhatsApp and Messenger messengers. .