“There are going to be women who are walking around this earth in 60 years with brittle bones because of choices Facebook made now.” Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen is “extremely worried' about long-term mental and physical health of young users.
working on legislation to rein in social media companies that the company is making online hate and extremism worse and outlined how it could improve online safety.
“I was like, ‘Wow, do you know what we could have done with safety if we had 10,000 more engineers?’ It would be amazing,” she said. Haugen has told U.S. lawmakers that she thinks a federal regulator is needed to oversee digital giants like Facebook, something that officials in Britain and the European Union are already working on.
Collins was referring to the 2018 debacle involving data-mining firm Cambridge Analytica, which gathered details on as many as 87 million Facebook users without their permission. Haugen also is scheduled to meet next month with European Union officials in Brussels, where the bloc's executive commission is updating its digital rulebook to better protect internet users by holding online companies more responsible for illegal or dangerous content.
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