After a whistleblower drew new attention to Facebook’s lack of interest in curbing its worst aspects, karaswisher and profgalloway discussed whether the company's latest crisis might end up actually mattering
Frances Haugen, the Facebook whistleblower. Photo: Robert Fortunato for CBS News/60MINUTES Facebook and its associated properties were down for several hours on Monday in one of the company’s worst technological failures ever. But that’s hardly the only problem Mark Zuckerberg is contending with this week. The whistleblower who leaked damning internal documents to The Wall Street Journal has come forward, drawing even more attention to Facebook’s lack of interest in curbing its worst aspects.
Haugen has filed complaints to the FCC claiming that Facebook misled its investors. Nick Clegg of Facebook sent an internal memo ahead of the 60 Minutes episode, calling the claims misleading. Haugen is expected to testify before Congress today. What’s your take here? Subscribe on: Apple Podcast Google Podcast Spotify Kara Swisher: “What-the-living-hell fuck?” is what you want me to say, right? So they dissolved her team. They had the civic-integrity team, which a lot of people thought was great. And she thought they dissolved it too quickly after the election, while Trump was still disputing it. They shut that down. She’s very well spoken. She’s very clear. She also doesn’t seem crazy — it’s hard to attack her.
A bunch of our children were dying in auto accidents because of drunk drivers. And then, basically, moms banded together to start this organization called Mothers Against Drunk Driving, and it basically put pressure on Washington to withhold federal highway funds such that every state raised its legal drinking limit to 21 despite the alcohol lobby and a lot of powerful people. I think this may be big because, quite frankly, I think the cohort here that is going to save us from Facebook is moms.
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