Another former Facebook employee is going public with allegations that the company failed to act on its own research showing that young Instagram users were having harmful experiences on the platform. Arturo Bejar, a former Facebook employee and consultant for Instagram, is scheduled to testify at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday, November, 7.
“Safety issues” is just a super-weird newspeak way to talk about propaganda.
I couldn’t tell what it meant from the headline; what, does instagram have a factory where people are getting injured? Well, no. And yes.
I agree that it’s an obnoxiously vague headline.
They’re talking about the fact that they intentionally crafted The Algorithm to shape social media feeds in a way that is actively detrimental to mental health (of all ages, but particularly young people) of a statistically significant proportion of the population simply because it’s profitable.
You’re welcome for explaining the business model of centralized corporate social media.
I wouldn’t expect much from this. There will probably be a lot of uneducated technological questions from the court, and purposefully vague responses from the facebook guy