The day after a prolonged disruption to Facebook platforms, a former employee of the company testified in the US Congress at a special hearing on the activities of the largest social network. Earlier, 37-year-old Frances Haugen handed over to the authorities and journalists a number of internal documents of the company, in which she worked for 3 years as a product manager.
Speaking to Congress, she criticized her former employer:
“My name is Francis Haugen. I used to work at Facebook. I joined Facebook because I thought Facebook could bring out the best in us. But I'm here today because I think Facebook products are bad for kids, they stir up discord and weaken our democracy. The company management knows how to make Facebook and Instagram more secure, but they are not making the necessary changes because the astronomical profits are higher for them than people. “
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Criticism of Mark Zuckerberg's company was also sounded from congressmen, who called on regulators to investigate reports that the social network is harming children and deepening divisions in society. For example, Richard Blumenthal, chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Commerce, compared Facebook products to cigarettes, claiming that they are equally addictive.
“Our children become victims. Today, teenagers, looking in the mirror, experience doubts and self-doubt. But in fact, looking at himself in the mirror would be worth Mark Zuckerberg, ” Blumenthal said.
The social media outage on Instagram and Facebook on Monday was not related to a hacker attack, it was a configuration error, a technological glitch. So said the US Cybersecurity Agency, noting, however, that the US authorities were monitoring the situation in case a larger incident in cyberspace occurred that could affect other critical infrastructure.
