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Another former Facebook employee will testify at Congress about safety issues at Instagram (ca.news.yahoo.com)
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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.

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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

“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.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

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.