Whistleblower: Facebook chose profit over public safety

NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook prematurely turned disconnected safeguards designed to thwart misinformation and rabble rousing aft Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump successful past year's elections successful a moneymaking determination that a institution whistleblower alleges contributed to the deadly Jan. 6 penetration of the U.S. Capitol.

The whistleblower, erstwhile Facebook merchandise manager Frances Haugen, besides asserted during an exclusive interrogation that aired Sunday connected CBS' "60 Minutes" that a 2018 alteration to Facebook's quality feeds contributed to much divisiveness and sick volition successful a web ostensibly created to bring radical person together.

According to the Associated Press, Haugen antecedently worked astatine Google and Pinterest earlier coming to enactment for Facebook successful 2019.

Haugen said she aft losing a person to online conspiracy theories, she requested to enactment successful an country of the institution that fights misinformation, the AP reported.

“Facebook, implicit and implicit again, has shown it chooses nett implicit safety,”Haugen said during her "60 Minutes" interview.

After the election, Haugen said Facebook dissolved a portion connected civic integrity wherever she had been working, which led her to the realization that she didn't "trust that they’re consenting to really put what needs to beryllium invested to support Facebook from being dangerous.”

Haugen is acceptable to attest earlier Congress this week.

Facebook contends Haugen's allegations are misleading and insists that determination is nary grounds to enactment the premise that it's the superior origin of societal polarization.