The documents paint a picture of a company that is often aware of the harms to which it contributes-but is either unwilling or unable to act against them. The documents were the basis of a series of articles in the Wall Street Journalthat sparked a reckoning in September over what the company knew about how it contributed to harms ranging from its impact on teens’ mental health and the extent of misinformation on its platforms, to human traffickers’ open use of its services. “My goal was to support lawmakers as they think through these issues.”īeginning in late summer, Haugen, 37, disclosed tens of thousands of pages of internal Facebook documents to Congress and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). counterparts, Haugen says diplomatically. European lawmakers and regulators “have been on this journey a little longer” than their U.S. laws have the potential to force Facebook and its competitors to open up their algorithms to public scrutiny, and face large fines if they fail to address problematic impacts of their platforms.
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