Facebook products ‘harm children, stoke division’: Whistleblower
Al Jazeera
Former Facebook employee Frances Haugen is urging US lawmakers to regulate the social media giant.
A former Facebook Inc employee has said the social media giant’s products harm the mental health of some young users, stoke divisions and weaken democracy, urging United States lawmakers to regulate the company.
Whistleblower Frances Haugen told a US Senate subcommittee on Tuesday that Facebook has repeatedly misled the public about the damage it knows teenage girls suffer from its photo-sharing app Instagram, as well as how its products fuel divides.
“I’m here today because I believe Facebook’s products harm children, stoke division and weaken our democracy,” Haugen said in a statement before her testimony on Capitol Hill.
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