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A Facebook whistleblower who posted tens of thousands of investigation pages and internal documents is testifying before the Senate about the company's impact on children.
What is expected of the statement of the Facebook whistleblower in the Senate?
Here's what the Facebook whistleblower had to say about the company:
Frances Haugen alleges that the company is hiding the investigation into its shortcomings from investors and the public, and shared documents with The Wall Street Journal for an investigation that revealed that Facebook investigators have repeatedly found the photo-sharing platform to be toxic to adolescent girls.
Facebook has aggressively rejected these reports.
The complainant's testimony comes after a tumultuous day for the company, when it was idle for about six hours on Monday.
Whistleblower: Almost no one outside of Facebook knows what happens inside Facebook
About Facebook's ability to operate:
Facebook's artificial intelligence (AI) systems "only detect a very small minority of offensive content," whistleblower Frances Haugen told congressional lawmakers on Tuesday.
"So the scale is, 'Can we do very cheap things for a large number of people?'
Which is part of the reason they rely on AI so much. None of those ads may have been seen by a human, "he said.
Facebook is extraordinarily profitable, but Frances Haugen repeatedly refers to the company as being "understaffed."
He said this staff shortage contributes to a vicious cycle of platform-wide problems.
Haugen described the following "pattern of behavior": Often, he said, "the problems were so understaffed that there was a kind of implicit discouragement about having better detection systems."
For example, "my last team at Facebook was on the counterintelligence team within the threat intelligence organization, and at one point, our team could only handle a third of the cases that we knew about. We knew that if we built even one detectors , we would probably have many more cases. "
Frances Haugen, former product manager at Facebook.
The impact of networks on children
Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen told Senate lawmakers that Instagram has changed children's family lives.
"Children who are bullied on Instagram, the bullying follows them home. It follows them to their rooms. The last thing they see before going to bed at night is that someone is being mean to them. Or the first thing they see. in the morning it's someone being cruel to them. The children are learning that their own friends, the people they care about, are cruel to them, "he said.
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Facebook pronounces
As lawmakers asked whistleblower Frances Haugen about how Facebook attracts and treats young users, Facebook spokesperson Andy Stone reacted on Twitter.
He tweeted that Haugen did not work directly on child safety issues at the company.
Haugen has been transparent about the fact that he did not work on child safety issues at Facebook;
He noted in a reply that, although he has some knowledge of the subject, he did not work directly on it.
However, Haugen provided lawmakers with extensive internal documentation related to Facebook's investigation on the matter.
What we know about Frances Haugen, the Facebook whistleblower