{"id":45063,"date":"2022-02-20T11:54:01","date_gmt":"2022-02-20T19:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=45063"},"modified":"2022-02-20T11:54:01","modified_gmt":"2022-02-20T19:54:01","slug":"facebook-whistleblower-company-misled-investors-on-covid-misinfo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=45063","title":{"rendered":"FACEBOOK WHISTLEBLOWER: COMPANY MISLED INVESTORS ON COVID MISINFO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook whistleblower\u00a0Frances Haugen\u00a0reportedly filed two new complaints with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) arguing the tech giant misled investors about its efforts to mitigate the spread of misinformation on climate change and COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>The allegations build on Haugen\u2019s broader efforts to raise the alarm about her former employer through SEC complaints. The first round of complaints against Facebook were filed in October.<\/p>\n<p>The new complaints were filed by Whistleblower Aid, a nonprofit representing Haugen, this month,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/zbmdvgzjfrrkcgcrkbsffkddfzkqrzrttlfjgwqrbmsbsz_spmbmmvrvtbkcmrrlmkl.html?a=&amp;b=47267\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/zbmdvgzjfrrkcgcrkbsffkddfzkqrzrttlfjgwqrbmsbsz_spmbmmvrvtbkcmrrlmkl.html?a%3D%26b%3D47267&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1645326600356000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2REatYouKvSGa5WFApmRCs\">The Washington Post reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The complaints allege Facebook, now under its parent company Meta, made \u201cmaterial misrepresentations and omissions in statements to investors\u201d about efforts to combat misinformation, the Post reported, citing redacted copies of the documents.<\/p>\n<p>A complaint alleges that Facebook&#8217;s internal documents \u201cpaint a different story\u201d on efforts to combat misinformation about COVID-19, despite the company and executives&#8217; public statements pledging to remove the harmful, false information, the Post reported.<\/p>\n<p>Meta spokesperson Drew Pusateri touted Facebook\u2019s policies about misinformation on COVID-19 and climate to The Hill, including removing \u201cfalse claims about vaccines\u201d and directing users to \u201cauthoritative\u201d information centers about both topics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook whistleblower\u00a0Frances Haugen\u00a0reportedly filed two new&#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":[16,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45063","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=45063"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45064,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45063\/revisions\/45064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}