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Facebook is making a concerted effort to become more like TikTok, according to a whistleblower. Frances Haugen hasn't been impressed with Facebook's efforts to evolve over recent months, arguing that it's "a bad idea". Speaking at Vox Media's Code Conference, Haugen said: "The world that they're choosing to go towards is one where you have to do censorship to be safe and I think that's a bad idea." Haugen made the comments after Facebook took the decision to transform its home feed to include a new tab that recommends short videos called Reels. The change led social media users to draw a paral...
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Meta is breaking up with its app for couples, Tuned. Mark Zuckerberg’s company - which owns and operates popular social media services such as Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp - is shutting down the service that was billed in April 2020 as a "private space where you and your significant other can just be yourselves”. In their newest release notes for Apple’s App Store, Meta wrote: "We started as a small, experimental project in 2020, and are so proud of how many couples since then have told us Tuned brought them closer together. We are so grateful for all of the creativity and feedback from th...
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Facebook is "unquestionably making hate worse", according to Frances Haugen. The whistleblower made the statement in front of the Online Safety Bill committee in London, where British MPs have been considering what regulations they should impose on social networking platforms. Frances said: "Facebook has been unwilling to accept even little slivers of profit being sacrificed for safety." She also warned of the potential dangers of Instagram. Frances explained: "Instagram is about social comparison and about bodies ... about people's lifestyles, and that's what ends up being worse for kids." Th...
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Mark Zuckerberg has hit back at a Facebook whistle-blower, insisting many of her claims "don't make any sense". The Facebook founder and chief executive has responded to a number of comments made by former employee Frances Haugen, who alleged this week that the company puts "astronomical profits before people" in testimony to the US Congress. But Zuckerberg has responded, writing on the social networking site: "At the heart of these accusations is this idea that we prioritise profit over safety and wellbeing. That’s just not true. "The argument that we deliberately push content that makes peop...
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