Facebook warns whistleblower will allege on "60 Minutes" it contributed to Capitol riot

[kpete]

the New York Times is reporting that on this evening on 60 minutes a former employee will expose everything, and apparently she has receipts.

A Facebook executive said in a defiant internal memo that a former employee will accuse the company of contributing to the U.S. Capitol riot, the New York Times first reported Saturday.Why it matters: Facebook appears to be launching a pre-emptive strike against the whistleblower ahead of a CBS "60 Minutes" interview airing Sunday and her scheduled appearance at a Senate hearing on Tuesday.

Clegg states that the program will "suggest that the extraordinary steps we took for the 2020 elections were relaxed too soon and contributed to the horrific events of January 6th in the Capitol."

She claims she can "prove Facebook is lying to the public and investors about the effectiveness of its campaigns to eradicate hate, violence and misinformation from its platforms," per CBS.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/nyt-facebook-warns-whistleblower-allege-025915195.html
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/10/2/2055824/-Facebook-Exec-Warns-Ex-Employee-Will-Claim-Company-Contributed-To-Jan-6-Insurrection-On-60-Minutes?utm_campaign=recent

[Scrivener7]

1. Shocked. Shocked, I tell you.

[Vinca]

2. I was remembering when the Internet first came into being we all thought it would be a way to learn

more and that it would improve society immensely. The exact opposite is true. It - especially Facebook - is a worldwide network to spread hate and disinformation for profit.

[CentralMass]

3. The internet is what you make of it. It didn't create hate

[70sEraVet]

4. When television was invented, it was expected that it would be a great educational tool.

Boy, did they get THAT wrong!

[Demsrule86]

7. Television certainly can be an educational tool. All technology is what you make it...but television

was invented for entertainment...so you could watch 'movies' at home-nothing wrong with that.

[Demsrule86]

6. No...the internet is a huge boon to us...but technology is always a double edged sword.

[CincyDem]

8. Never forget who Facebook is at their core...

...a bunch of college kids hacking into the registrar's offices to download picture of female students to rate them as "hot or not".

Money makes good people better and bad people worse. FB stared out in the bad people camp and have never been held accountable for it since. So it should come as no surprise they're a part of any and all things sleasy...as long as they can make a buck.

[Baitball Blogger]

5. DailyKos is not too bright. There's a picture of a cat on a keyboard at the link.

And the captions reads, "I think my brain has too many tabs." So when you link to that article in Facebook, that's the picture that comes up with all this serious information.

[C_U_L8R]

9. Like many others, I reported a bunch of the magat FB groups set up for planning

And despite all the false information and obvious conspiracy to stop Congress,
Facebook did nothing.

The conclusions seem pretty obvious.

[Rhiannon12866]

10. Video of 60 Minutes interview - Facebook Whistleblower Frances Haugen: The 60 Minutes Interview

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1017685122

Frances Haugen says in her time with Facebook she saw, "conflicts of interest between what was good for the public and what was good for Facebook." Scott Pelley reports. Aired on 10/03/2021.