Whistleblower Frances Haugen (pictured) met with MPs for two hours yesterday where she was probed about the company’s inner workings.
Haugen was a data engineer at Facebook and began secretly copying thousands of the firm’s documents before quitting the firm. She has said the firm’s own internal data has shown that its Instagram platform is more dangerous for teenagers than rivals such as Snapchat or Tiktok.
“The events we’re seeing around the world, things like Myanmar and Ethiopia, those are the opening chapters because engagement-based ranking does two things: one, it prioritises and amplifies divisive and polarising extreme content and two it concentrates it,” Haugen said.
But Facebook has rejected her claims with founder Mark Zuckerberg recently saying it was illogical for the social network to deliberately push content that made its users angry.
“Contrary to what was discussed at the hearing, we’ve always had the commercial incentive to remove harmful...