frances haugen
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Facebook Has No Clue How to Solve Its Image Problem, Leaked Doc Shows
Despite what the company’s stock prices might tell you, Facebook is a company with an image problem. At best, critics warily regard Facebook as a company that ruthlessly strips users for their data so it can curbstomp competitors in increasingly hostile ways. At worst, people call the company a threat to democracy itself. And while…
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Your Facebook News Feed Sucks Because That’s How Advertisers Like It
At a time when American’s trust in the news media is plummeting to record lows, one recent Pew poll reported that about a third of U.S. adults say they regularly get their news fix from Facebook’s feeds — even if their own trust in Facebook itself is plummeting to new lows for, oh, whatever reason.…
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Advocacy Groups Launch Initiative to ‘Stop’ Facebook
As Facebook weathers an ongoing PR shitstorm composed of various interlocking crises, a number of public advocacy groups have launched a website that asks Americans to help put the screws to the tech giant.
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The Danger of Letting Facebook Off the Hook Like Big Oil
Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen has rocked the company with distrubing revelations about how the social media giant knows it harms its users, speaking to the media and in front of members of Congress this week to lay out the case that Facebook is doing damage to its users.