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+ Frances Haugen’s testimony to US Congress
Notes
Frances' Testimony
- Initially joined facebook for moral good, but realizes its inhumanity
They won’t solve this crisis without your help" I’m here today because I believe Facebook’s products harm children, stoke division and weaken our democracy.
- Weaken democracy, prefers profit over people, propose insecurities for women and children
- Agrees that people also use facebook for decent activities
- Sector is understaffed
- If were to build a basic detection system, would leave to too many cases to handle
How do ads for 13-17 that are illicit are approved by facebook?
- Facebook’s AI systems only catch a small minority of offending content
- 10-20% of hate speech
- Relying on ai over humans will reduce effectiveness
Expectations of Zuckerberg
- Emphasizing zuckerberg’s lack of care for the current situation
Examining the facebook whistleblower’s testimony
- Political parties were collectively for Frances' view and testimony
- Didn’t use tech terms to explain, simply plain english, shows her authentic intentions to inform the general public
- Criticizing her experience and involvement, <2 years as product manager, not part of important meetings
- Believes fb won’t do anything until legally forced to due to insane profits
Mike Lee’s Follow Up
- Confirms that sexual/adult-content related ads were sent to children13-17
- Only three things an advertiser can target
- age
- location
- gender
- have restrictions, ex) don’t allow tobacco ads to minors
Ads:
- Throw a skittles party like no other
- prescription drugs ad
- Anatip (designed to encourage anorexia)
- Loneliness message to promote online dating
TDP did not push ads, but were approved by facebook
France’s Response:
- Ads were probably not seen by human
- Focus on AI for scalability of processes
Does facebook still collect interest category data?
- Personalized ads are happening
- Collect data from the responses towards advertisements
Thoughts/Questions
- Interesting to see meta’s response
Resources
What Our Research Really Says About Teen Well-Being and Instagram | Meta (fb.com)
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Created:: 2022-01-26 16:01