Facebook mole, EU rules can save democracies

BRUSSELS -

, to force platforms to innovate no longer only according to the law of profit and to save our democracies".

So

, during her hearing in the European Parliament's Internal Market Committee.

During his speech to MEPs, Haugen explained how Facebook "creates divisions in communities and weakens our democracies" and how this is known within the company which, however, has "deliberately decided not to hold against internal investigations to continue to put the profit to the health and safety of people ".

According to Haugen, the problem lies mainly in the secrecy with which Facebook is administered which determines the fact that

. For the authorities, conducting internal investigations into Facebook is impossible, since "access to data would involve the violation of market secrecy - explained the whistleblower - but this leads to a situation in which Facebook is the sole judge of itself and its problems. and this is no longer sustainable ".

Faced with this, democracies must do "what they always did when the market got out of hand, that is, impose rules", explained Haugen.

I could not be more grateful to the EU for taking this issue seriously, the DSA can be the gold standard of the digital world and inspire others. countries, including America, to save our democracies ".