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“We already knew that hate speech, bigotry, lies about Covid-19, about the pandemic, about the [US] election and about a number of other issues were prolific across Facebook’s platforms. What we didn’t know was the extent of what Facebook knew.”

Mark Zuckerberg says it’s not possible to catch every piece of harmful content without infringing on people’s freedoms in a way that I don’t think we’d be comfortable with as a society.

Photo: Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesThe 37-year-old data scientist and whistle-blower, who resigned from Facebook earlier this year, explained how the company knew that its algorithms took users down extremist paths. Facebook, according to Haugen, created test accounts that followed Donald Trump, his wife Melania, Fox News and a local news outlet.Subscribe to News24 for just R75 per month to read all our investigative and in-depth journalism. You can cancel any time.

 

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