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.
Frances Haugen, a former Facebook product manager, says big tech companies such as Facebook's parent company Meta need to be held accountable for the harms their products cause while profiting at handsome margins of up to 30 per cent.
She says B.C. crafted the law using information brought to light in U.S. lawsuits, and she looks forward to seeing how the province will use it. 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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