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Monika Bickert, vice president of content policy at Facebook, responded to a whistleblower's accusations this afternoon, saying the platform does not push incendiary content in order to drive engagement. Edward Markey – has received donations from the social media behemoth, according to federal records.įorbes first reported on the donations to members of the panel. All but one of the 12 lawmakers on the subcommittee – Massachusetts Sen. Facebook’s PAC has donated nearly $190,000 to the campaign committees and leadership PACs of most lawmakers on the panel, Federal Election Commission records show. Members of that subcommittee, however, also have benefited from the company’s political activity. She said its products “harm children, stoke division and weaken our democracy” as she testified before a Senate subcommittee on consumer protection. On Tuesday, a Facebook whistleblower – former product manager Frances Haugen – urged Congress to take action to rein in the company. Facebook’s lobbying agenda ranged from trade to Section 230 of the Communication Decency Act, which protects companies’ ability to moderate content, its filings show. That made it the second-highest spender on lobbying this year among all Big Tech companies, according to Open Secrets, a nonpartisan group that tracks money in politics and ranks lobbying spending.Īnd last year, Facebook was the biggest Washington spender on lobbying in the world of Big Tech, Open Secrets found - plowing some $19.6 million into its efforts to shape US policy. In the first six months of this year alone, the social media giant and its subsidiaries spent more than $9.5 million on lobbying, Senate records show. Richard Blumenthal, who chairs the Senate Commerce subcommittee on consumer protection, suggested that these national security concerns could be the subject of a future subcommittee hearing.įacebook, under intense scrutiny in Congress, has invested heavily in recent years to influence Washington. Haugen said she has “strong national security concerns” about how Facebook operates.She said that Facebook "knows it is leading young users" to content related to eating disorders. Amy Klobuchar, a Democrat from Minnesota, asked Haugen if the company is using its algorithm to push "outrageous content" and promoting eating disorders to young girls.
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She stressed that schools and the National Institutes of Health should provide established information where parents can learn how to better support their kids. Haugen emphasized how parents are facing a new set of challenges that didn't exist when they were growing up.
They say, 'Just take your kid's phone away.' But the reality is that it's a lot more complicated than that," she said. "I'm saddest when I look on Twitter and people blame the parents for these problems with Facebook. The former Facebook employee said the company's research reveals kids believe they are struggling with issues like body image and bullying alone because their parents can't guide them.Haugen testified that understaffing contributes to Facebook’s struggle to tackle problems and that artificial intelligence programs only catch a "very tiny minority" of offending content.She said Facebook should “declare moral bankruptcy" and ask for help from Congress. She called on Congress to take action to prevent harm caused by the social media company, including amending Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.Haugen said during her congressional testimony that Facebook’s products “harm children, stoke division and weaken our democracy" and put profit over moral responsibility.