{"id":41469,"date":"2021-10-25T10:43:32","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T17:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=41469"},"modified":"2021-10-25T17:43:53","modified_gmt":"2021-10-26T00:43:53","slug":"haugen-heads-across-the-pond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=41469","title":{"rendered":"HAUGEN HEADS ACROSS THE POND"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook whistleblower\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/jtbfczshnbbwpzpbwtvnnwffnswkbsbddmnhzqkbjrttjv_mwtcnnyqylcdynqwcnbw.html?a=&amp;b=43683\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/jtbfczshnbbwpzpbwtvnnwffnswkbsbddmnhzqkbjrttjv_mwtcnnyqylcdynqwcnbw.html?a%3D%26b%3D43683&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1635288266224000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGMgIV_Uy58l318QJMc-TP1msqYNw\">Frances Haugen<\/a>\u00a0told British lawmakers Monday the social media platform exacerbates online hate, with the company failing to allocate adequate resources to combat the issue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnquestionably, it\u2019s making hate worse,\u201d Haugen told a parliamentary committee.<\/p>\n<p>Her testimony\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/aybsrvbzlmmncvcmnyhllnsslbngmbmwwplzvtgmdkyydp_mwtcnnyqylcdynqwcnbw.html?a=&amp;b=43683\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/aybsrvbzlmmncvcmnyhllnsslbngmbmwwplzvtgmdkyydp_mwtcnnyqylcdynqwcnbw.html?a%3D%26b%3D43683&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1635288266224000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFB8bx0oPKFFW5fe8bppPATv_ldHw\">follows an appearance<\/a>\u00a0before a Senate Commerce subcommittee earlier this month. Her United Kingdom appearance coincided with the publication of dozens of reports based on internal Facebook documents taken by Haugen before she left the company.<\/p>\n<p>During Monday\u2019s committee meeting in the U.K., Haugen underscored accusations that Facebook doesn\u2019t prioritize safety by referencing the company\u2019s plans to ramp up hiring for its \u201cmetaverse.\u201d Facebook said last week it is planning to hire up to 10,000 workers in Europe to build the plan for the virtual and augmented reality realm.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was like, \u2018Wow, do you know what we could have done with safety if we had 10,000 more engineers?\u2019 It would be amazing,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook whistleblower\u00a0Frances Haugen\u00a0told British lawmakers Monday&#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-41469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41469","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=41469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41470,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41469\/revisions\/41470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}