Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen calls for urgent external regulation

…Addressing a group of MPs and peers on Monday, Haugen said much of the blame for the world's increasingly polarised politics lay with social networks and the radicalising impact of services such as Facebook Groups...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/oct/25/facebook-whistleblower-frances-haugen-calls-for-urgent-external-regulation

Facebook whistleblower 'shocked' by company’s investment in metaverse

'Wow, do you know what we could have done with safety if we had 10,000 more engineers?' It would have been amazing."…

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/facebook-whistleblower-shocked-companys-investment-metaverse-rcna3725

Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen could usher in tech’s ‘Big Tobacco’ moment, lawmakers say - The Washington Post

… "We need to understand what the hell is happening on these platforms before we can create good public policy," he said in an interview. "We need to do something immediately."…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/10/06/facebook-whistleblower-frances-haugen-senate-unity/

Facebook is on the ropes, just as the right wanted. But there’s a catch. - The Washington Post

… When Haugen argues that Facebook hasn't done enough to tamp down on misinformation and hate, when she provides internal documents that reveal the company's possession of "evidence from a variety of sources that hate speech, divisive political speech and misinformation on Facebook and the family of apps are affecting societies around the world," that is the opposite of what Trump and his allies are concerned about. They aren't mad at Facebook for how it is lax in its policing of content. They're mad about the policing of content...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/10/04/facebook-is-ropes-just-right-wanted-theres-catch/