{"id":849658,"date":"2021-10-05T16:29:24","date_gmt":"2021-10-05T20:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=849658"},"modified":"2021-10-05T16:29:27","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T20:29:27","slug":"activist-leftist-facebook-whistleblower-demands-congress-regulate-social-media-platforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/activist-leftist-facebook-whistleblower-demands-congress-regulate-social-media-platforms\/","title":{"rendered":"Activist, Leftist Facebook Whistleblower Demands Congress Regulate Social Media Platforms"},"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\">20<\/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%2Factivist-leftist-facebook-whistleblower-demands-congress-regulate-social-media-platforms%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=849658&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/GettyImages-1235714892.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Leftist, activist whistleblower Frances Haugen, testified in front of Congress on Tuesday, demanding that Congress take action to regulate or demand reform from social media platforms like Facebook, which she claims encourages the spread of misinformation in order to maximize profit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe company\u2019s leadership knows how to make Facebook and Instagram safer but won\u2019t make the necessary changes because they have put their astronomical profits before people,\u201d Haugen said Tuesday. \u201cCongressional action is needed. They won\u2019t solve this crisis without your help.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCompanies have 100% control over their algorithms, and Facebook should not get a free pass on choices it makes to prioritize growth and virality and reactiveness over public safety,\u201d Haugen added. \u201cThey\u2019re paying for their profits right now with our safety.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, Haugen wants changes made to Section 230, which shields Facebook from liability for content posted to its platform, recognizing Facebook, essentially, as a neutral resource that does make the kind of editorial decisions that would make it responsible for certain types of problematic links, stories, and photos.<\/p>\n<p>Haugen suggested that Congress could make Facebook liable for promoting content based on engagement rather than on accuracy or any number of other<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think if we had appropriate oversight, or if we reformed Section 230 to make Facebook responsible for the consequences of their intentional ranking decisions, I think they would get rid of engagement-based ranking because it is causing teenagers to be exposed to more anorexia content,\u201d Haugen said in her testimony. \u201cIt is pulling families apart, and in places like Ethiopia, it is literally fanning ethnic violence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a statement earlier Tuesday, Facebook indicated that Haugen, who was in front of Congress to testify about the social media platform\u2019s ill effects on children \u2014 particularly young girls \u2014 had never served in a capacity where she would have set or reviewed Facebook\u2019s policy on matters of child safety, or would even have had direct knowledge of the issue.<\/p>\n<p>Haugen \u201cdid not work on child safety or Instagram or research these issues and has no direct knowledge of the topic from her work at Facebook,\u201d Facebook spokesperson Andy Stone tweeted during the hearing, referencing Haugen\u2019s own testimony.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/facebook-whistleblower-leftist-activist-lawyer-ukraine-impeachment\">the Daily Wire reported<\/a>, Haugen \u201chas a record of donations to far-left Democrats and a history of raising issues about purported bias while at previous employers\u2026She is working with Democrat operatives to roll out her complaint and has the same lawyers as the anonymous Ukraine \u2018whistleblower\u2019 whose allegations led to Donald Trump\u2019s impeachment, but who reportedly turned out to be then-Vice President Joe Biden\u2019s top advisor on the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s also represented by&nbsp;a company called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brysongillette.com\/leadership\/\">Bryson Gillette,<\/a> helmed by a raft of Democratic operatives\u201d who are \u201cproviding Haugen with \u2018strategic communications guidance,\u2019 and helping run what one Republican called \u2018an incredibly well-orchestrated communications campaign,\u2019 the <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/top-democratic-operative-bill-burton-advising-facebook-whistleblower\/\">Free Beacon<\/a> reported. Burton is on the board of the Center for Humane Technology, which has waged a policy war with Facebook.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>White House press secretary Jen Psaki worked, at one point, with Bryson Gillette, with the&nbsp;Center for Humane Technology as one of her clients.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leftist, activist whistleblower Frances Haugen, testified in front of Congress on Tuesday, demanding that Congress take action to regulate or demand reform from social media platforms like Facebook, which she &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-849658","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\/849658","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=849658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849658\/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=849658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}