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Facebook whistleblower testifies platform has "not earned the right to just have blind trust in them"
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Frances Haugen, the Facebook whistleblower who first came forward in an explosive "60 Minutes" interview, told a Senate subcommittee on Tuesday that there is "no one" holding Mark Zuckerberg accountable except for himself.
"Facebook has not earned a right to just have blind trust in them," Haugen said. "Trust is ... last week one of the most beautiful things I heard on the committee was trust is earned. And Facebook has not earned our trust."
Haugen said the company suffered from "moral bankruptcy" and is "stuck in a loop it can't get out of."
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