Facebook in crosshairs of US trade watchdog

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Facebook is back in the crosshairs of the US Federal Trade Commission as the regulatory agency looks into disclosures that Facebook’s own research identified ill effects from its products.

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FTC officials are also investigating whether the social media giant might have violated a 2019 settlement with the agency over privacy concerns raised by the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

The company's research found evidence its algorithms foster discord and that its Instagram app is harmful to many of its users - especially teenage girls. In a statement, Facebook said it “became subject to government investigations and requests relating to a former employee’s allegations and release of internal company documents concerning, among other things, our algorithms, advertising and user metrics, and content enforcement practices, as well as misinformation and other undesirable activity on our platform, and user well-being".

“I think the FTC should be really angry if Facebook concealed this material from them as it did from us in the Congress and the public,” Mr Blumenthal said in an interview. If the social media company did not do so – in spite of its own findings – this could constitute a deceptive trade practice.

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