{"id":1105,"date":"2021-11-22T13:48:17","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T12:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/2021\/11\/22\/facebook-critics-love-whistleblower-frances-haugens-leaks-but-hate-her-policy-ideas-new-york-post\/"},"modified":"2021-11-22T13:48:17","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T12:48:17","slug":"facebook-critics-love-whistleblower-frances-haugens-leaks-but-hate-her-policy-ideas-new-york-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/2021\/11\/22\/facebook-critics-love-whistleblower-frances-haugens-leaks-but-hate-her-policy-ideas-new-york-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook critics love whistleblower Frances Haugen&#039;s leaks but hate her policy ideas &#8211; New York Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"cfbc967f0983488262956e73eca9483a\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3859091246952232\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- blok -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3859091246952232\" data-ad-slot=\"1334354390\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n\n<\/div>\n<p> \t\t<button type='submit' class='pushbutton-wide'>Submit<\/button>\t\t<input type='hidden' name='contact-form-id' value='20176959' \/> \t\t<input type='hidden' name='action' value='grunion-contact-form' \/> \t\t<input type='hidden' name='contact-form-hash' value='748463a957cfd03ea74e2551ce1261a84bd0afd1' \/> \t<br \/> \t\tThanks for contacting us. We&#039;ve received your submission.\t<br \/>Facebook critics have a Frances Haugen problem: Many love that the whistleblower leaked a trove of documents exposing many of the tech giant\u2019s worst problems \u2014 but hate her ideas on how to solve them.&nbsp;<br \/>Haugen has repeatedly insisted that breaking up Meta Platforms &#8212; the company that owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, and which <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/10\/28\/facebook-changes-its-corporate-name-to-meta\/\">changed its name from Facebook<\/a> last month amid a torrent of bad press &#8212; will not solve the issues she has helped uncover. Those include <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/10\/26\/instagram-pushes-anorexia-images-to-teen-girls-who-have-eating-disorders-docs-show\/\">Instagram\u2019s toxic effects on teen mental health<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/10\/25\/facebook-has-struggled-to-crack-down-on-human-trafficking\/\">company\u2019s struggles to crack down on human trafficking<\/a>.&nbsp;<br \/>Instead, Haugen has insisted in interviews and in Congressional testimony that the company&#8217;s woes are mainly the result of poor leadership under Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg, who has deployed algorithms that run its social-networking apps to incentivize engagement at any cost.<br \/>&#8220;These systems are going to continue to exist and be dangerous even if broken up,&#8221; Haugen told Congress in October. <br \/>Such comments have left bad tastes in the mouths of many Meta critics, who initially praised Haugen\u2019s leaks as a breakthrough as they seek to hold Facebook accountable for its increasingly outsize power.&nbsp;<br \/>\u201cShe turned over the documents \u2014 great,\u201d Mike Davis, head of the conservative anti-Big Tech group the Internet Accountability Project, told The Post. \u201cThank you for your service. Now go away.\u201d&nbsp;<br \/>\u201cShe\u2019s not a policy expert, especially not in antitrust,\u201d said Davis, who previously worked for Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and supports a <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/11\/04\/nancy-pelosi-is-standing-in-the-way-of-big-tech-reform-insiders-say\/\">slate of House antitrust bills<\/a>, including one that could break up Meta, Google and other big tech firms.&nbsp;<br \/>Instead of slicing the company into pieces, Haugen told lawmakers that the government should leave Meta whole and create a new regulator that would be able to request company data and force changes to its algorithms.<br \/>\u201cThere needs to be a regulatory home where someone like me could do a tour of duty after working at a place like this,\u201d Haugen said.&nbsp;<br \/>Haugen doubled down on the idea in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vogue.com\/article\/facebook-whistleblower-frances-haugen-interview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Vogue interview<\/a> on Tuesday, saying that calls to break up the company are \u201cso reductive\u201d and could even violate the first amendment.&nbsp;<br \/>&#8220;At which point, the way we will get change is if, like, we have 18-year-olds having dance parties outside Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s house,\u201d added Haugen in the interview, which was accompanied by a photoshoot.&nbsp;<br \/>But Haugen&#8217;s belief that Meta&#8217;s harms do not inherently come from its size but rather from its leadership and a lack of oversight is misguided, according to Matt Stoller, an antitrust expert and former adviser to Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT). <br \/>&#8220;The documents were useful but she\u2019s not relevant,&#8221; Stoller told The Post, adding that Haugen &#8220;doesn\u2019t really have any understanding of the core problem.&#8221; <br \/>\u201cShe basically agrees with Mark Zuckerberg,&#8221; he added. &#8220;She wants Mark Zuckerberg to be nicer.\u201d&nbsp;<br \/>A prominent Republican lobbyist also slammed Haugen, arguing that opening Facebook up to greater competition would help address issues including Instagram\u2019s negative effects on teens. &nbsp;<br \/>&#8220;Haugen and her largely Democratic supporters are looking at the wrong solution,&#8221; the lobbyist told The Post.&nbsp;<br \/>&#8220;We do not need a super speech regulator,&#8221; the lobbyist added. &#8220;We need to solve the market power problem.&#8221;<br \/>Influential digital rights group the Electronic Frontier Foundation, meanwhile, has sought to thread the needle by using Haugen&#8217;s testimony to bolster their case for breaking up the company without acknowledging that she opposes the idea. <br \/>&#8220;Facebook\u2019s broken system is fueled by a growth-at-any-cost model, as indicated by some of the testimony Haugen delivered to Congress,&#8221; the group <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2021\/11\/after-facebook-leaks-here-what-should-come-next\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote<\/a> in November. &#8220;In other words, Facebook&#8217;s badness is inextricably tied to its bigness.&#8221; <br \/>&#8220;Requiring Facebook to divest Instagram, WhatsApp, and possibly other acquisitions and limiting the companies\u2019 future mergers and acquisitions would go a long way toward solving some of the problems with the company, and inject competition into a field where it\u2019s been stifled for many years now,&#8221; the Electronic Frontier Foundation added.<br \/>Meta and Bill Burton, a former Obama administration communications staffer who represents Haugen, did not respond to requests for comment.<br \/>Share Selection<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/11\/21\/facebook-critics-love-whistleblower-frances-haugens-leaks-but-hate-her-policy-ideas\/\">source<\/a><\/p>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Submit Thanks for contacting us. 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