Facebook Can't Be Saved
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/epnykp/facebook-cant-be-saved
“I joined Facebook because I think Facebook has the potential to bring out the best of us,” Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen said at the top of her testimony in a Senate hearing on Tuesday, “but I’m here today because I believe Facebook’s products harm children, stoke division and weaken our democracy.”
The gist of that comment—that Facebook can and should be a better company—characterized much of the first half of the hearing. Over and over, Haugen said that Facebook can make its gargantuan network, which encompasses Instagram and WhatsApp, safer, but has chosen to put profits before people and their safety. So, she said, Facebook needs “help.”