TIME magazine has featured Mark Zuckerberg on its cover in its newest problem amid claims Facebook fuels division, harms children and puts income more than security.
The cover photo comes with an illustration of a phone app deletion icon and a seemingly basic query – “Delete ‘Facebook’?” – and two possibilities – “Cancel” or “Delete”.
Whistleblower Frances Haugen, a former item manager on Facebook’s civic misinformation group, this week told US lawmakers how the business pushed for greater income whilst getting cavalier about user security. She mentioned Facebook had also accomplished also small to avert its platform from getting employed by men and women organizing violence.
How Facebook forced a reckoning by shutting down the group that place men and women ahead of income https://t.co/xm1uu7SCfl
— TIME (@TIME) October 8, 2021
The TIME cover short article, published on the magazine’s web site, is titled “How Facebook Forced a Reckoning by Shutting Down the Team That Put People Ahead of Profits”.
The short article speaks extensively of Facebook’s civic integrity group and points out to how the social media giant’s choices alienated lots of members of the vital group that fights misinformation and hate. Facebook dissolved the group in December 2020, which sooner or later led Frances Haugen to blow the whistle.
“Whatever the future direction of Facebook, it is clear that discontent has been brewing internally. Haugen’s document leak and testimony have already sparked calls for stricter regulation and improved the quality of public debate about social media’s influence,” writes Billy Perrigo, the author of the short article.
Earlier this week, Mark Zuckerberg hit back at the whistleblower’s claims, saying they are “just not true”.
“The argument that we deliberately push content that makes people angry for profit is deeply illogical,” Zuckerberg wrote in a note to Facebook personnel that he then posted on his account.
“I don’t know any tech company that sets out to build products that make people angry or depressed. The moral, business and product incentives all point in the opposite direction.”