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Facebook whistleblower, Frances Haugen reacts during an interrogation with Reuters up of a gathering with German Justice Minister Christine Lambrecht, successful Berlin, Germany, November 3, 2021.
Michele Tantussi | Reuters
Former Facebook employee-turned-whistleblower Frances Haugen connected Thursday announced a caller nonprofit with the extremity of making societal media healthier.
The caller radical appears to physique connected the solutions she's projected to lawmakers and societal media companies themselves astir however to marque platforms safer, based successful portion connected her acquisition arsenic a erstwhile merchandise manager connected Facebook's civic misinformation team.
Haugen has go a well-known fig since leaking tens of thousands of pages of interior documents and aboriginal revealing her individuality connected "60 Minutes" past year. She besides testified earlier Congress.
"Beyond the Screen" volition commencement by creating an open-source database of ways "Big Tech is failing successful its ineligible and ethical obligations to society," according to a property release, and item imaginable solutions. The radical calls this a "Duty of Care" task that aims to place gaps successful probe astir online harms and travel up with ways to capable them.
The contents of the leaked documents, which Haugen besides turned implicit to lawmakers and the Securities and Exchange Commission, were archetypal reported by The Wall Street Journal. Those reports elaborate the company's cognition of its product's sometimes harmful effects connected children and teens, varied contented moderation standards for high-profile accounts and conflict dealing with imaginable harmful contented in antithetic languages and taste contexts.
Facebook has antecedently said the documents were cherry-picked and their framing skewed distant from perchance affirmative interpretations of the data. Facebook genitor institution Meta did not instantly respond to a petition for remark connected Haugen's caller venture.
Haugen has much precocious advocated for circumstantial laws successful the U.S. and overseas that purpose to marque societal media safer for kids. Haugen voiced her support for the California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act, which was recently signed into instrumentality by Gov. Gavin Newsom. The instrumentality volition necessitate galore platforms to plan their services with children's privateness and information successful caput and forestall them from nudging minors to supply idiosyncratic oregon determination information, among different things. Tech manufacture groups argued the connection was excessively wide and burdensome connected galore platforms.
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