{"id":850307,"date":"2021-10-05T20:14:30","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T00:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=850307"},"modified":"2021-10-05T20:14:47","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T00:14:47","slug":"sen-klobuchar-facebook-algorithms-stir-political-division-in-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sen-klobuchar-facebook-algorithms-stir-political-division-in-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Klobuchar: Facebook algorithms stir political division in U.S."},"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%2Fsen-klobuchar-facebook-algorithms-stir-political-division-in-u-s%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=850307&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 id=\"attachment_2540932\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2540932\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Facebook employee and whistleblower Frances Haugen (right) is welcomed by US Senators Richard Blumenthal (left) and Amy Klobuchar (2nd left) as she arrives to testify during a Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation hearing on Capitol Hill, October 5, 2021, in Washington, DC. (Photo by DREW ANGERER\/POOL\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 4:55 PM PT \u2013 Tuesday, October 5, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>Democrat Sen. Amy Klobuchar (Minn.) has admitted Facebook and other Big Tech giants were stirring up political division in the U.S. Speaking after a congressional hearing with a Facebook whistleblower, Klobuchar called for a reform of regulations for social media.<\/p>\n<p>The Democrat added social media giants ran algorithms to shape public opinion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of this has to do with transparency with the algorithms, and their admission, which we need to hear this is done for profit,\u201d she asserted. \u201cFacebook every quarter gets $51 on each and every one of you in America. $51 per user per quarter on advertising revenue. That\u2019s because they\u2019re taking their data and then they\u2019re putting it out and they don\u2019t care if you\u2019re eight years old or 13 years old.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NOW: I\u2019m participating in the Senate Commerce Committee\u2019s hearing with Frances Haugen, where we\u2019re continuing to learn about how Facebook puts profits over our kids, our health, and our democracy. Watch here: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pnUqSZoIoX\">https:\/\/t.co\/pnUqSZoIoX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Senator Amy Klobuchar (@SenAmyKlobuchar) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenAmyKlobuchar\/status\/1445433969894363139?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 5, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Former Facebook employee Frances Haugen accused the company of misleading its investors and the public as well as highlighted its failure to ensure a safe user experience on its platform. The whistleblower said CEO Mark Zuckerberg held a very powerful role with no accountability.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMark holds a very unique role in the tech industry and that he holds over 55 percent of all the voting shares for Facebook,\u201d she explained. \u201cThere are no similarly powerful companies that are as he unilaterally controlled and in the end, the buck stops with Mark. There is no one hurt currently holding Mark accountable by himself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Haugen added Facebook made $40 billion a year and consistently put profits before people.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/doj-creates-task-force-to-silence-parents-critical-of-public-school-boards\/\">DOJ Creates Task Force To Silence Parents Critical Of Public School Boards<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Facebook employee and whistleblower Frances Haugen (right) is welcomed by US Senators Richard Blumenthal (left) and Amy Klobuchar (2nd left) as she arrives to testify during a Senate Committee &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"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-850307","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\/850307","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=850307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850307\/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=850307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=850307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=850307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}