{"id":1002824,"date":"2021-11-12T11:13:44","date_gmt":"2021-11-12T16:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1002824"},"modified":"2021-11-12T11:13:46","modified_gmt":"2021-11-12T16:13:46","slug":"former-clinton-adviser-is-helping-facebook-whistleblower-lobby-lawmakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-clinton-adviser-is-helping-facebook-whistleblower-lobby-lawmakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Clinton Adviser Is Helping Facebook Whistleblower Lobby Lawmakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fformer-clinton-adviser-is-helping-facebook-whistleblower-lobby-lawmakers%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1002824&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A former technology adviser to Hillary Clinton\u2019s 2016 presidential campaign is helping former Facebook employee Frances Haugen lobby European lawmakers.<\/p>\n<p>Ben Scott, former Clinton adviser and executive director of anti-Big Tech lobbying group Reset, has been working with Haugen since shortly before she testified in the Senate, Politico first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/10\/20\/tech-billionaire-aiding-facebook-whistleblower-516358\">reported<\/a>&nbsp;in October. Reset is funded by Luminate, an advocacy organization operated by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar, as well as the Sandler Foundation, according to its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reset.tech\/about\/\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The group receives as much as $10 million a year in Luminate funding, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/frances-haugen-facebook-the-worlds-most-professional-whistleblower\/\">according<\/a>&nbsp;to Politico.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe wants to tell her story to European lawmakers, and we know who she should talk to,\u201d Scott told Politico. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/13\/facebook-frances-haugen-big-tech-mark-zuckerberg\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Facebook\u2019s Whistleblower Could Be The Best Thing To Ever Happen To Big Tech)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Reset\u2019s mission, according to its website, includes efforts to \u201csilence hate speech,\u201d \u201cexpose disinformation\u201d and \u201cblock toxic harassment.\u201d Scott said Europe\u2019s more aggressive attitude towards tech regulation made the continent a natural target for lobbying efforts.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7298189\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"33\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7298189\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Facebook employee Frances Haugen testified on Capitol Hill this week about how Facebook allegedly drives divisive and false narratives to maximize its profits. (Drew Angerer\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cAs an American whistleblower from an American company, it was natural for her to first talk to American officials,\u201d Scott, who is based in Europe along with the majority of his 7-person team. \u201cBut she knows that Europe is where the rules are coming from. She knows that here is where the action is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Haugen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2021\/11\/08\/haugen-facebook-whistleblower-eu-testimony\/\">testified<\/a>&nbsp;before both the European Parliament and the United Kingdom Parliament over the past few weeks, urging lawmakers to take action against major tech companies like Facebook and pointing the alleged harms of \u201conline misinformation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Haugen, who is herself a Democratic donor, is also <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/06\/facebook-whistleblower-frances-haugen-mark-zaid-bill-burton\/\">working<\/a>&nbsp;with Democratic operatives, including Bill Burton, a former Obama administration official and founder of consulting firm Bryson Gillette, and Democratic political action committee Priorities USA Action. Burton is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.humanetech.com\/\">listed<\/a>&nbsp;as a public affairs representative for the Center of Humane Technology, which has pushed Facebook and other social media platforms to remove more misinformation and harmful content.<\/p>\n<p>Scott previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2016\/06\/inside-clintons-tech-policy-circle-223992\">served<\/a> as coordinator of the Tech &amp; Innovation Policy Advisory Group for Hillary Clinton\u2019s 2016 presidential campaign, and he worked as a policy adviser for the State Department in the Obama administration.<\/p>\n<p>In comments to Politico, Scott dismissed his past as a Democratic operative as having any bearing on his work with Haugen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would truly regret if my own professional history undermined what Frances Haugen is trying to do,\u201d he said. \u201cHer motivation is not partisan. My motivation is not partisan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Neither Reset nor Haugen immediately responded to the Daily Caller News Foundation\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former technology adviser to Hillary Clinton\u2019s 2016 presidential campaign is helping former Facebook employee Frances Haugen lobby European lawmakers.Ben Scott, former Clinton adviser and executive director of anti-Big Tech &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1002824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/96"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1002824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1002824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1002824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1002824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}