A woman who blew the whistle about Facebook ignoring potential harms to users of the social media platform says proposed laws by Canada and B.C. have promise...
A woman who blew the whistle about Facebook ignoring potential harms to users of the social media platform says proposed laws by Canada and B.C. have promise to hold tech companies to account for profiting off harmful content.
Haugen, who testified before the U.S. Congress in 2021 about Facebook's refusal to mitigate harmful content in favour of profit, says American government lawsuits were "transformative" in revealing information about societal impacts of harmful online content. Haugen, who was in Australia and made available to media by the B.C. government on Friday, says places around the world are dealing with harmful content affecting children, and it's "accelerating so fast the public resources to cope with them are not keeping up."
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