Billionaire Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday hit back at the allegations that his company Facebook fuels division, harms children and needs to be regulated, saying the claim the company puts profits over safety is "just not true."
Hours after a US-based whistleblower testified before US Lawmakers, Zuckerberg wrote in a note to Facebook employees, saying that the argument of deliberately pushing content that makes people angry for profit is deeply illogical, that he then posted on his account.
"I don't know any tech company that sets out to build products that make people angry or depressed. The moral, business and product incentives all point in the opposite direction,” Zuckerberg said.
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Following the publishing of initial investigatory efforts into the documents, the whistleblower - Frances Haugen - has come forward in an interview, explaining more about the tech giant's workings, and why she chose to release the data, AppleInsider reported
That data release led to a series of reports, including one that revealed Facebook allegedly knew that Instagram was bad for the well-being of teenagers. That report led to a hearing with the Senate Commerce Committee's consumer protection subcommittee on mental health in teenagers.
In an interview with 60 Minutes on Sunday, Haugen doubled down on the document trove seemingly proving Facebook cared more about its algorithms than dealing with hate speech and other toxic content, the report said.
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Haugen was formerly a product manager at the company, working in its Civic Integrity Group, but departed after the group was dissolved.
Before her departure, she copied tens of thousands of pages of internal research, which she claims demonstrates Facebook lies to the public about its progress against hate, violence, and misinformation.
