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  • Meta Learned The Wrong Lesson From Frances Haugen

    From Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?=@ldo@nz.invalid to comp.misc on Thu Sep 11 01:00:16 2025
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    Remember when Frances Haugen came forward in 2021 to reveal that
    Facebook/Meta knew it was causing harm to underage users, but didn’t
    seem keen to do anything about it <https://www.theverge.com/policy/775623/meta-whistleblowers-hearing-virtual-reality>?

    The company did make changes as a result of that revelation, but they
    were the wrong kind of changes: instead of actually fixing the problem
    of underage harm, it decided to stop collecting the data that revealed
    that harm. It has restricted researchers’ access, and threatened the
    jobs of those who wanted to gather data on “forbidden” topics.
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  • From Jason H@jason_hindle@yahoo.com to comp.misc on Mon Sep 15 20:32:49 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.misc

    On 11/09/2025 02:00, Lawrence DOliveiro wrote:
    Remember when Frances Haugen came forward in 2021 to reveal that >Facebook/Meta knew it was causing harm to underage users, but didn’t
    seem keen to do anything about it ><https://www.theverge.com/policy/775623/meta-whistleblowers-hearing-virtual-reality>?

    The company did make changes as a result of that revelation, but they
    were the wrong kind of changes: instead of actually fixing the problem
    of underage harm, it decided to stop collecting the data that revealed
    that harm. It has restricted researchers’ access, and threatened the
    jobs of those who wanted to gather data on “forbidden” topics.


    If there's a choice to be made, you can depend on Meta to make the wrong (or
    morally questionable) choice. It will be interesting to see what was
    showing up in Nepalese Facebook and Instagram feeds over the past month.


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