US President Joe Biden. File photoWASHINGTON, Mar 2US authorities should hold social media accountable for «experimenting children» for profit, US President Joe Biden told Congress.
" responsibility from social networks for the nationwide experiment they are conducting on our children in the name of profit,” Biden said, welcoming former Facebook employee Frances Haugen to the audience. Earlier, she disclosed evidence that the company, aware of the dangers of its platform and technologies for the psychology of adolescents, continued to use them to increase profits.
The scandal around Facebook that erupted last year is associated with the name Haugen: she accused the leadership of the social network of neglect user safety and called on Congress to intervene. Working at Facebook since 2019, Haugen secretly copied thousands of pages of the company's internal documents, which she later released to the press. In October, Haugen made her revelations at a US Senate hearing. Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg denied accusations that the social network puts profit over user safety. On October 28, Facebook announced that it was renaming Meta. Its creator, Mark Zuckerberg, said that the new brand focuses on the metaverse, where a person will refuse screens and will experience the effect of presence in virtual reality. At the same time, at this stage, the names of applications (including the social network Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and others) will not be changed. Ukraine «will make Russia weaker»