{"id":906998,"date":"2021-10-21T17:58:51","date_gmt":"2021-10-21T21:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=906998"},"modified":"2021-10-21T17:58:54","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T21:58:54","slug":"top-house-antitrust-lawmakers-held-meeting-with-facebook-whistleblower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/top-house-antitrust-lawmakers-held-meeting-with-facebook-whistleblower\/","title":{"rendered":"Top House Antitrust Lawmakers Held Meeting With Facebook Whistleblower"},"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%2Ftop-house-antitrust-lawmakers-held-meeting-with-facebook-whistleblower%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=906998&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>Top lawmakers in the House Judiciary antitrust subcommittee met with Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen on Thursday, a person familiar with the matter confirmed to the Daily Caller News Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>Democratic Rep. David Cicilline, who chairs the subcommittee, and Republican Rep. Ken Buck, who serves as ranking member, held a meeting with Haugen to discuss Facebook and issues related to social media competition, Politico first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/10\/21\/house-antitrust-leaders-meet-with-facebook-whistleblower-516556\">reported<\/a>, citing two sources. A person familiar with the matter confirmed the meeting to the DCNF, and said the lawmakers also discussed potential antitrust reforms, as well as matters related to privacy and social media algorithms.<\/p>\n<p>Buck and Cicilline worked together to <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/24\/bills-combatting-big-techs-monopolistic-practices-closer-law-bipartisan\/\">advance<\/a> a series of antitrust bills targeting major tech companies out of the House Judiciary Committee in June, and have both <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/10\/12\/facebooks-moral-failure-shows-need-for-competition-test-for-congress.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">advocated<\/a> for breaking up Facebook and other large platforms. The antitrust bills are currently set to reach the House floor in November. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/13\/ken-buck-google-american-principles-project\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: Rep. Ken Buck Demands Google Explain Suspension Of Conservative Group Critical Of Big Tech)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Haugen in her <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/05\/facebook-whistleblower-frances-haugen-senate\/\">testimony<\/a> before the Senate earlier in October opposed lawmakers\u2019 suggestions that the harms of Facebook and other social media companies could be addressed through antitrust reform, instead arguing for more federal oversight of social media platforms and reform of engagement-based ranking algorithms.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7083216\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"37\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7083216\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO) questions witnesses at a House Judiciary Committee hearing on police brutality and racial profiling on June 10, 2020 in Washington, DC. George Floyd died May 25 while in Minneapolis police custody, sparking worldwide protests. (Photo by Greg Nash-Pool\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In an early October <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/04\/ken-buck-big-tech-antitrust-republican\/\">interview<\/a> with the DCNF, Buck said the fundamental problems of social media platforms, including those outlined by Haugen, could best be solved through improving competition in the marketplace, and pushed back on increased federal intervention in online speech.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we have five Facebooks we\u2019ll address the speech issue better than having some government censor decide what is appropriate or dangerous,\u201d Buck said.<\/p>\n<p>Haugen has called for a dedicated federal body to oversee major tech companies, arguing that the lack of oversight has exacerbated social media\u2019s ills.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[T]here needs to be a dedicated oversight body because right now the only people in the world who are trained to analyze these experiments to understand what\u2019s happening inside of Facebook are people who grew up inside [social media platforms],\u201d Haugen said during her testimony.<\/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>Top lawmakers in the House Judiciary antitrust subcommittee met with Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen on Thursday, a person familiar with the matter confirmed to the Daily Caller News Foundation.Democratic Rep. &#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-906998","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\/906998","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=906998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906998\/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=906998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=906998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=906998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}