{"id":40206,"date":"2021-09-20T14:24:40","date_gmt":"2021-09-20T21:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=40206"},"modified":"2021-09-20T16:25:03","modified_gmt":"2021-09-20T23:25:03","slug":"pressure-ramps-up-on-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=40206","title":{"rendered":"Pressure ramps up on Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Rep.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/nfqjgcwhkqqnbcbqntdkknjjkwnmqwqzzpkhcrmqyjkrpk_qvgmggswstmfswmpfghf.html?a=&amp;b=42497\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/nfqjgcwhkqqnbcbqntdkknjjkwnmqwqzzpkhcrmqyjkrpk_qvgmggswstmfswmpfghf.html?a%3D%26b%3D42497&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1632263524024000&amp;usg=AFQjCNE6PB2334tZo0pLGva0mpu33ktwOg\">Raja Krishnamoorthi<\/a>\u00a0(D-Ill.) is pressing Facebook for documents regarding what he calls the social media giants\u2019 apparent failure to protect user welfare based on recent reporting that revealed the platform is being used for human trafficking and that top executives had apparent knowledge of Instagram\u2019s detriment to young users\u2019 mental health.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Krishnamoorthi, chairman of the subcommittee on economic and consumer policy,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/igczptgkcyywrtrywbmccwzzcgwqygyffdcktnqyhzcnng_qvgmggswstmfswmpfghf.html?a=&amp;b=42497\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/igczptgkcyywrtrywbmccwzzcgwqygyffdcktnqyhzcnng_qvgmggswstmfswmpfghf.html?a%3D%26b%3D42497&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1632263524024000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFwJE3PyBIxLvdmmmhm5LdIosLrIQ\">sent a letter<\/a>\u00a0to Facebook CEO\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/dgsszlgkjttfblbtfrcjjfssjgfwtgtnnmjkldwtpsjddt_qvgmggswstmfswmpfghf.html?a=&amp;b=42497\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/dgsszlgkjttfblbtfrcjjfssjgfwtgtnnmjkldwtpsjddt_qvgmggswstmfswmpfghf.html?a%3D%26b%3D42497&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1632263524024000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGGbTNDC1A6kUujleCmaRHavcwSZw\">Mark Zuckerberg<\/a>\u00a0on Monday requesting documents and information following the series of reports from The Wall Street Journal.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Democrat\u2019s first request relates to allegations of Facebook\u2019s facilitation of human trafficking on the platform after the Journal reported that tech giant knowingly allowed trafficking and other illicit content, such as organ selling and pornography.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cIt would be troubling if an American company attempted to pad its profits through rapid expansion in lower-income countries without instituting the same safety measures it employs here and in other wealthy nations,\u201d Krishnamoorhi wrote.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Additionally, he is piling on the pressure for Facebook to release information and be forthcoming about its research into the impact of its products, primarily Instagram, on young users.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep.\u00a0Raja Krishnamoorthi\u00a0(D-Ill.) is pressing Facebook for&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40207,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40206\/revisions\/40207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}