CNN host Jake Tapper and self-proclaimed whistleblower Francis Haugen, who worked at Facebook, said Thursday that Facebook is using “trillions” of dollars worth of the company to “wipe out the Nazis.” censorship should be tightened because of this. 2024 elections.
“They’re worth trillions of dollars,” Jake Tapper told former Facebook employee Haugen, who called for increased censorship in testimony before a Senate committee in 2021. as a whistleblower concerned about the spread of false information. “They could hire more people to get rid of the Nazis, remove misinformation and everything else. Why not? (Related: ‘Did You Approve State Cover-Up Censorship?’: Musk Blames Schiff for Revealing Twitter Files)
“The problem we have now is very simple. We require companies like Facebook to report their expenses, such as profit and loss numbers, how they got their profit, but the social side of the ledger. We are not asking for a report,” Haugen told Tupper. “And if there are consequences such as electoral jeopardy, voter disenfranchisement, and influence operations, all of them are invisible in the quarterfinal report.”
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According to documents released in January by Louisiana Republican Attorney General Jeff Landry, the White House told Facebook that Fox News host Tucker over Carlson, who claimed the coronavirus vaccine was ineffective.・Pressed Mr. Carlson to censor him.
Social media companies have taken steps to curb so-called “misinformation,” including an October 2020 New York Post report about Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop leading up to the 2020 presidential election, and the FBI has warned against Biden. reportedly alerted Facebook about the leak.
“Mark Zuckerberg came out earlier this year and said, ‘This interesting opportunity has arisen.’ I can work efficiently for a year,” and laid off more than 20,000 employees. Many of my favorite safety researchers are no longer with the company and don’t work voluntarily,” Haugen asserted.
Elon Musk completed his acquisition of Twitter on Oct. 27 after social media site executives said they misled him and tried to back out of a $44 billion deal that would take the company private. . On Nov. 4, after the sale, the company began layoffs on a large scale, saying it was necessary to make a profit.
Journalists Matt Taibi, Barry Weiss, and Michael Shellenberger all reported on Twitter’s censorship and shadowbanning based on documents released by Musk, who Musk told the New York Post. said it had not provided transparency on issues such as the censorship of coverage of Hunter Biden’s laptop in October 2020. “We need it to restore public trust.”
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