Facebook personnel were asked to restrain news
Once more, the social networking giant is under the spotlight.
Facebook’s employees have effortlessly acted to restrain right-wing platforms, ignoring managers’ objections to prevent any future political clash on its platform, reported by the Wall Street Journal (WSJ).
In-house debates between the tech giant’s managers and employees were driven by recent worries that Facebook is inversely dealing with news outlets based on their political stance.
The WSJ’s report highlighted how Facebook dealt with Breitbart’s news, with the titan’s employees pursuing the website’s News Tab function, by removing certain information following protests concerning George Floyd’s death last year.
“I can also tell you that saw drops in trust in CNN 2 years ago: would we take the same approach for them too?” a senior researcher responded after following an employee’s question about removing Breitbart from Facebook.
Facebook’s vice president of global affairs, Nick Clegg, informed employees that “we need to steel ourselves for more bad headlines in the upcoming days, I’m afraid.”
Clegg’s statement comes as a follow-up to WSJ’s latest report in a series of groundbreaking blows around Facebook’s way of managing news on its platform, in addition to its ever-growing thirst for profit at the expense of its users.
It seems that voices are rising against the titan’s misconduct towards its users, as a new whistleblower emerged to the scene on Friday and informed the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that the company has endlessly disregarded worries around spreading hate speech and the infectious rollout of false information out of fear it would jeopardize its monetary growth.
While the new whistleblower’s name has yet to be revealed, the individual submitted the testimony under oath. In addition, the testimony added that one Facebook communications official, Tucker Bunds, perceived hate speech as a “flash in the pan” and went further to say that even though “some legislation will get pissy,” Facebook is “printing money in the basement.”
In parallel, an employee who worked at the company informed The Post that the whistleblower’s statements about Tucker Bounds are truthful.
“That’s how Tucker talks,” the former employee stated.
“The Tucker quote, as much as I disagree with it, really does reflect the attitude during 2017,” he added.
Facebook’s whistleblower Frances Haugen’s statement to the SEC encouraged other employees to come forward and speak against the company’s misconduct to enlarge its financial growth at the expense of its users. At the end of the day, the social networking giant managed to grow its supremacy while operating in the dark.
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