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I found things that I thought were putting lives in danger | Facebook Whistleblower Frances Haugen
Category: Technology
Duration: 00:25:46
Publish Date: 2021-12-14 12:00:00
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Should Mark Zuckerberg step down as CEO of Meta (formerly known as Facebook)? Frances Haugen, the whistleblower who leaked the Facebook Papers, thinks so.

Her crisis of conscience led her to lift the lid on the social media company’s opaque practices around moderating hate speech and misinformation. She told how "Facebook has been unwilling to accept even little slivers of profit being sacrificed for safety".

In this episode, Frances talks about the accusation from Facebook that the papers were both stolen and cherrypicked, and how the company has made safety on its platform a false choice between censorship and free speech.

Frances Haugen was speaking at Web Summit 2021, in conversation Libby Liu, the CEO of Whistleblower Aid and Laurie Segall, co-founder and Executive Producer at Dot Dot Dot Media.

This week’s episode was hosted by Web Summit’s Luke Prendeville.

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