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October 4, 2021 astatine 9:06 am
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — Facebook and its Instagram and WhatsApp societal platforms crashed Monday greeting successful a monolithic work outage.
The outage reportedly began astatine 8:41 a.m. PDT and determination was nary contiguous connection from the Menlo Park-based institution connected the root of the outage.
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It’s been a hard 24 hours for the societal media giant.
While determination are nary indications the outage is connected, Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen stepped retired of the shadows connected Sunday nighttime successful an interrogation with CBS News “60 Minutes”, shedding airy connected the dark, murky, troubled satellite surrounding the Bay Area societal media giant.
Watch The “60 Minutes” Interview
Haugen, who worked astatine Google and Pinterest earlier joining Facebook successful 2019, anonymously filed complaints with national instrumentality enforcement that the company’s ain probe shows however it magnifies hatred and misinformation.
She had asked to enactment successful an country of the institution that fights misinformation since she mislaid a person to online conspiracy theories.
Facebook’s effect to “60 Minutes” Report
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Quotes from the report:
On Why She Took Her Stand
“Imagine you cognize what’s going connected wrong of Facebook and you cognize nary 1 connected the extracurricular knows. I knew what my aboriginal looked similar if I continued to enactment wrong of Facebook, which is idiosyncratic aft idiosyncratic aft idiosyncratic has tackled this wrong of Facebook and crushed themselves to the ground.”
On The Dark World Of Social Media
“When we unrecorded successful an accusation situation that is afloat of angry, hateful, polarizing contented it erodes our civic trust, it erodes our religion successful each other, it erodes our quality to privation to attraction for each other, the mentation of Facebook that exists contiguous is tearing our societies isolated and causing taste unit astir the world.”
On The Programming Of Facebook Algorithm
“So, you know, you person your phone. You mightiness spot lone 100 pieces of contented if you beryllium and scroll connected for, you know, 5 minutes. But Facebook has thousands of options it could amusement you.”
On The Facebook Culture
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“No 1 astatine Facebook is malevolent. But the incentives are misaligned, right? Like, Facebook makes much wealth erstwhile you devour much content. People bask engaging with things that elicit an affectional reaction. And the much choler that they get exposed to, the much they interact and the much they consume.”
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