
Facebook: An Accountability Crisis, A Question of Values
We are seeing a lot of headlines lately about Facebook’s decision-making, about its lack of accountability, and specifically about its leadership’s (often-stated) commitment to protect society by reining in hate speech and extremism on its platform. How serious is that commitment? A former product manager for Facebook, Frances Haugen, recently testified before a Senate subcommittee that, in her experience, Facebook “repeatedly encountered conflicts between its own profits and our safety, (and) consistently resolved those conflicts