Five questions in Westminster for Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen
by Dan Milmo Global technology editor from Technology | The Guardian on (#5R3KC)
MPs and peers to pick brain of former Facebook employee in connection with draft online safety bill
Frances Haugen brings her searing assessment of Facebook to Westminster on Monday with an appearance at the joint committee scrutinising the draft online safety bill.
The former facebook employee has provoked an onslaught of criticism of Mark Zuckerberg's company by releasing tens of thousands of internal Facebook documents outlining the firm's failure to keep harmful content off its platforms (as well as its eponymous social network, Facebook owns Instagram, Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp). She has already testified to US senators this month at a hearing in which she accused the company of putting astronomical profits before people".
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